March 29: Cairo bound EgyptAir flight MS181 is hijacked by Egyptian man, Seif Eldin Mustafa. Mustafa strapped a fake suicide bomb around his stomach and forced the pilot to land the plane in Cyprus.
March 31: South African President Jacob Zuma is found liable for spending up to $20 million in public funds on so-called security upgrade on his private residence.
April 3: Associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin are found to have channeled as much as $2 billion to offshore accounts according to a leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm.
April 4: Greece closes its borders to nearly 200 migrants as they try to reach refuge. Instead, they are deported to Turkish land as the first of many boatloads of people who are seeking asylum in Greece, but sent away to Turkey.