A huge blast followed by a gun battle rocked an upmarket hotel and office complex in Nairobi on Tuesday, causing casualties, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab extremist group. The explosion at the DusitD2 compound, which includes a 101-room hotel, restaurant and several office buildings housing local and ...
Sudanese police fired tear gas Sunday at crowds of anti-government protesters in Khartoum and the western war-torn region of Darfur after organizers called for nationwide rallies against President Omar al-Bashir. The demonstrations in Darfur were the first of their kind since unrest erupted last month over a government decision to ...