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Mogadishu – At least 15 people are dead after a suicide car bomber posing as a milk delivery van detonated at a district headquarters in Somalia’s capital, police said on Tuesday. The death toll may rise, as some were badly hurt in the explosion at Wadajir district headquarters in Mogadishu, Captain Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press. Most of the ...

Nairobi – Two Tanzanian energy magnates on Monday became the first big industrialists to be charged over a multi-million-dollar graft scandal that led to the sacking of several top officials three years ago. A 2014 audit created an uproar after showing fraudulent payment of some $120m in state funds to an independent power producing company, prompting several foreign donors to ...

Nairobi – Eight people died and at least two were missing after an overloaded boat capsized off Kenya’s Lamu Island on Tuesday, police said. The small boat, carrying 30 passengers and cargo, was travelling from the island to the mainland when it capsized in rough seas. “Eight bodies have so far been retrieved. The bodies include one male, four females ...

More than 3,300 people have been killed in the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region since last October, the Catholic Church says. The figure, reported by the Reuters news agency, is from Church sources. The deaths are the result of clashes between the army and a rebel group, but civilians have also been caught up in the ...

A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years in prison for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract “likes” on Facebook. The father posted a picture of himself holding the baby out of a window in a high-rise building with the caption: “1,000 likes or I will drop him.” It prompted other social ...

Bangui – Aid workers say heavy fighting has erupted between armed groups in Central African Republic only hours after a peace deal was signed in Rome. Thirteen of the 14 armed groups signed the agreement that called for an immediate cease-fire. However, Doctors Without Borders says fighting already resumed early on Tuesday in the town of Bria. Mumuza Muhindo Musubaho, ...

US President Donald Trump has called North Korea a “brutal regime” after the death of a US student who had been jailed there for more than 15 months. North Korea returned Otto Warmbier, 22, to the US last week, saying he had been in a coma for a year and that it was acting on humanitarian grounds. His parents said ...

Beirut – An American fighter jet has for the first time downed a Syrian warplane that Washington accused of attacking US-backed fighters, in a new escalation between the United States and regime forces. The incident further complicates the country’s six-year war and comes as a US-led coalition and allied fighters battle to oust the Islamic State group from its Syrian ...

London – One man died and 10 people were injured after a van drove into a crowd of Muslim worshippers near a mosque in London in the early hours of Monday. London Mayor Sadiq Khan called it a “horrific terrorist attack” and counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation, as Muslim leaders linked the incident to a rise in Islamophobic crime. ...

Saylorsburg – Pennsylvania State Police are trying to figure out how a 4-year-old boy got hold of a gun before fatally shooting himself in the face. Troopers in Monroe County haven’t charged anyone in the death on Sunday of Bentley Thomas Koch at a home in Chestnuthill Township. The district attorney also is investigating. An autopsy has been scheduled for ...