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Several missing in Kenyan capital building collapse

Several people were missing on Tuesday after a seven-storey building collapsed overnight in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, rescue officials said. Residents were evacuated to...

Kenya foils terror attack planned by Somali militants

Kenya has seized six men suspected of planning an attack sponsored by the al Shabaab militant group from neighbouring Somalia, the head of Kenyan...

US conducts strike on al Shabaab, training base destroyed

The Pentagon said it had carried out an air strike on al Shabaab in Somalia on Sunday, and Somalia said its special forces had...

20 foreign journalists banned by South Sudan

South Sudan’s media authority says it has banned 20 foreign journalists from operating or entering the country for publishing false news. The chairman of the...

Al Shabaab takes over Somali town, kills 61

Al Shabaab militants captured a town in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Thursday, a senior official said, and the group said it had killed...

Kenyan nurses on strike over pay dispute

Kenyan government nurses have gone on strike over delays in an agreement that will give them pay rises, a union official said on Tuesday,...

Al Shabaab behind bomb attack on Somali police station

A bomb planted in a police station killed at least one policeman in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayu on Monday, and militant Islamist...

Botched anti-measles campaign kills 15 children in South Sudan

At least 15 children died in South Sudan in early May after health workers vaccinating them against measles used the same syringe without sterilizing...

Four Kenyan police, civilian killed by roadside bomb

Four police officers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in southeastern Kenya, a week after 14 others died in similar attacks...

China-built railway, biggest Kenya project opened

Kenya's president has opened the country's largest infrastructure project since independence. The $3bn Chinese-backed railway project eventually will link a large part of East Africa...

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