Moka, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius on Monday opened a special court at Moka, in the centre of the island, where suspected pirates off the coasts of Somalia will be tried, PANA reported from here. So...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said 2014 was marked by harrowing accounts of rape, sexual slavery and forced marriage being used by extremists including the Islamic State group and Boko Haram. In a repo...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - US Secretary of State John Kerry, currently visiting Kenya, has emphasized the need to fight terrorism with non-military means, including intensifying border patrols between Ken...

11 April 2015 From the section Africa The Dadaab camp is surrounded by desert in the north east of Kenya Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto has called on the United Nations to close the Dadaab refug...

Nairobi has given UN three months to move the camp over the border into Somalia.

Kenya says it has given the United Nations three months to move a massive refugee camp mostly used by Somalis over the border into Somalia, after militants from that country killed 148 people in a Keny...

Events that led Dagane Kenedid to Kenya from his village in Somalia in the early 1990s mark the most gruelling period of his life. Armed men swept into his village with murderous intent, killing four o...

The Pentagon confirms that a US drone strike in Somalia last Friday killed al-Shabab leader, Adan Garar, a suspect in the 2013 Kenya mall attack.

[PR Newswire] Strasbourg, France -Nearly 150 students were massacred on 2 April at the Garissa university campus in Kenya, the latest in a series of atrocities perpetrated against Christians by the Som...

Mortar shells have landed inside Somalia's presidential palace compound....