Soldiers in Ethiopia have killed nine civilians after mistaking them for militants close to its border with Kenya. The incident which occurred on Sunday also led to 12 people sustaining injuries.
The two political rivals in Kenya, President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition Nasa leader, Raila Odinga have held a rare meeting on Friday and resolved to let go their differences as they call for peace.
The government of Kenya has said that at least 1,300 Kenyans are being held in foreign jails in Africa and beyond and was working to get them extradited to Kenya.
The doctors who is at the center of a horrific surgery in Kenya at the Kenyatta National Hospital has had his suspension revoked after cutting open the head of a wrong patient.
Somalia’s al Shabaab group killed five police officers early on Friday in northeast Kenya, in an area where the Islamist militants have in the past attacked military and civilian targets, a senior official said.
Somalia’s Islamist group Al Shabaab set off a suicide car bomb at a security checkpoint about 15 km (nine miles) outside the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, the group’s spokesman and a police official told Reuters.
