Masked gunmen from Somalia’s Shebab Islamist group stormed a Kenyan university Thursday as students were sleeping, hurling grenades and shooting dead at least 15 people before taking Christians hostage. Scores of others were wounded in the assault, still ongoing some 12 hours after the first grenades were used to blast open the gates of the […]

Islamic State (IS), fighting to redraw the map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt’s most dangerous militant group, complicating efforts to stabilize the biggest Arab nation. Confirmation that Islamic Sate, currently the most successful of the region’s jihadi groups, is extending its influence to Egypt will sound alarm bells in Cairo, where the […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a “high-risk” country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights from West Africa, a WHO official said. This is the most serious warning to date by the WHO that Ebola could spread […]

A Swiftair MD-83 airplane is seen in this undated photo. Authorities have lost contact with an Air Algerie flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board. Photo: Reuters Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso […]

South Africans cleaned schools, planted vegetables and adopted penguins on Friday to celebrate “Mandela Day” for the first time since the death of the iconic leader on what would have been his 96th birthday. People around the world volunteered 67 minutes of their time for the common good to mark former president Nelson Mandela’s 67 […]

Nobel Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer attends a memorial for Nelson Mandela’s biographer Anthony Sampson in Johannesburg. February 8, 2005. Credit: Reuters South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, an uncompromising moralist who became one of the most powerful voices against the injustice of apartheid, has died at the age of 90, her family said on […]

3,300 people have been killed by Boko Haram this year alone. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been designated a terrorist by the US government Photo- BBC About 45 people were killed as suspected Boko Haram militants launched an attack on a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, reports BBC. The survivors told […]

Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader on Thursday, widening a crackdown against the Islamist movement after the army ousted the country’s first democratically elected president. But Egypt’s new interim leader, Adli Mansour, used his inauguration to hold out an olive branch to the Brotherhood. “The Muslim Brotherhood are part of this […]