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The County Commissioner of Lamu, Macharia Irungu, has confirmed that several suspects have been arrested following the attempted terrorist attack by al-Shabaab militants on Manda Bay…

The Al-Shabaab fighters attacked the military facility in the wee hours of Sunday claiming some deaths but the Kenyan army said the attack was repelled.

The car bomb killed about 90 people while some critically injured victims have been evacuated to Turkey for treatment.

“The overall number of the dead stands at 81 currently. Two more people died from their injuries,” Ismail Muktar, a government spokesman said.

A witness at Mogadishu airport saw 10 injured Somalis and the bodies of two dead Turks loaded on the plane, a Reuters report said

Health officials also said a total of 2,231 people have died out of 3,373 declared cases of Ebola in the current epidemic.

“The number of casualties we have confirmed is 76 dead and 70 wounded, it could still be higher,” Ambulance official Abdukadir Abdirahman Haji told AFP.

Pope Francis, Archbishop Welby and Rev. Chalmers urge Kiir and Machar to at least form a transitional government.

Abiy welcomed Isaias at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport, Ethiopia’s state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate said

The assembly speaker must formally notify the Speaker of the Senate at national level within two days of passing the motion