MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al-Shabab's top leader was in one of two vehicles hit Monday night by a U.S. military strike, a member of the Somali Islamic extremist group said Tuesday. The rebel commander would not say whether Ahmed Abdi Godane, the group's leader, was among the six militants killed.

Doctors Without Borders announced Wednesday it was pulling its aid workers out of Somalia after 22 years because too many of its workers were being killed or kidnapped.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A ban on food aid decision by extremist Islamic militants and a “normalization of crisis” that numbed international donors to unfolding disaster made south-central Somalia the most dangerous place in the world to be a child in 2011.