Gunmen sprayed bullets at New Year's revelers in two bars in northeastern Kenya Sunday, killing five people, a witness and police said, the latest in a wave of attacks near the border with Somalia.
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At least one person is dead after a former employee shot two Doctors Without Borders workers in Somalia.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of the country's 70 million Muslims, met two days after Boko Haram's Christmas day attacks.
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China will consider turning to the Seychelles as a resupply port for navy ships taking part in anti-piracy operations off Africa, official media said, rejecting suggestions this would amount to a military base that could unsettle the region.
Ban Ki-moon's surprise visit to Mogadishu on Friday marked the first time since 1993 that a United Nations secretary-general had visited Somalia's capital city.
Al-Shabab, the Islamist rebel group in Somalia with al-Qaida ties, became the latest
Islamic militants al-Shabab detonated a suicide car bomb in the Somali capital on Mogadishu on Tuesday.
The Senate decides not to clarify whether the government can arrest and indefinitely hold American citizens captured on U.S. soil, leaving a key debate about expanded presidential powers during the war on terror up to the president and the courts.
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Occupy Wall Street is the sharp tip of the spear, the Seal Team 6, that has driven the first hole in the unbroken line of Grover Norquist's famed anti-tax, pro-elite movement--and its so-called pledge. OWS has already done its work, already changed the public debate.
Rebel group al-Shabab raided a number of humanitarian organizations in Somalia on Monday, adding a militant exclamation point to their new ban on 16 aid agencies working in the famine-stricken country.
The African Union special envoy for Somalia on Wednesday urged countries waging war on al Shabaab to keep an open door to negotiations with militants who are willing to lay down their weapons.
An unidentified fighter jet bombed the outskirts of a Somali rebel-controlled village in the south of the Horn of Africa country on Tuesday, killing at least one civilian, residents and members of the al Shabaab militant group said.
Eritrea has complained to the U.N. Security Council about Kenyan allegations that it sent weapons to Islamist rebels in Somalia, calling for an independent investigation to judge the dispute.
A remote-controlled bomb blew up a police vehicle escorting a U.N. convoy in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp near the border with Somalia on Tuesday, the second such incident in the camp this month.
Tanzania's year-on-year inflation rate rose for the twelfth straight month in October on the back of higher food and fuel prices, and is expected by some analysts to keep climbing in the coming months.
Cholera has broken out in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, home to nearly 500,000 Somali refugees, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Dadaab, which is located near the Somali border, is now the world’s largest refugee settlement camp.
Both Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres have emphasized that Kenya is a critical ally for Israel and crucial to the stability of East Africa.
