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Kenya bombed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia on Sunday: military source

NAIROBI - The Kenyan air force bombed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia on Sunday, a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) source said, in the first major military response to last week's attack by the militant group on a Kenyan university.

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Kenya identifies one of four al Shabaab gunmen as son of government official: interior ministry

NAIROBI - Kenya on Sunday identified one of the al Shabaab gunmen who massacred students at a northeastern university as the son of a Kenyan government official, the interior ministry said.

World, 05 Apr 2015

Gunmen kill nine, gas pipeline hit in Nigeria's oil-rich delta

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - Nigeria's delta region was hit by violence on Friday, as gunmen killed nine people and, separately, militants blew up a gas pipeline, in a sign of returning unrest to the oil producing area days after a relatively peaceful presidential election.

World, 04 Apr 2015

Kenyatta says campus attackers 'embedded' in Kenya's Muslim community

GARISSA, Kenya - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Saturday that those behind an attack in which al Shabaab Islamist militants killed 148 people at a university were "deeply embedded" in Kenya, and called on Kenyan Muslims to help prevent radicalization. | Video

World, 04 Apr 2015

Sierra Leone's Kailahun district records first Ebola case in months

FREETOWN - Sierra Leone's eastern district of Kailahun, once a hotbed of Ebola, has recorded its first case in nearly four months, threatening progress made to stamp out the disease, officials said on Saturday.

World, Health, 04 Apr 2015

Gunmen kill nine, gas pipeline hit in Nigeria's oil-rich delta

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - Nigeria's delta region was hit by violence on Friday, as gunmen killed nine people and, separately, militants blew up a gas pipeline, in a sign of returning unrest to the oil producing area days after a relatively peaceful presidential election.

World, 04 Apr 2015

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Rachel Daniel, 35, holds up a picture of her abducted daughter Rose Daniel, 17, as her son Bukar, 7, sits beside her at her home in Maiduguri in this May 21, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Joe Penney/Files

The rifts behind Nigeria's mass kidnap

CHIBOK/ABUJA - When local people warned that hundreds of Islamist militants were heading towards his remote town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria, Danuma Mphur hurried to summon help.  Full Article