Al-Shabab claims role in deadly attack at Nairobi hotel
The coordinated assault began with an explosion that targeted three vehicles outside a bank, and a suicide bombing in the hotel lobby that severely wounded a number of guests, said Kenya's national police chief.
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News Wrap: Indonesia earthquake rescue crews wrap up search
In our news wrap Wednesday, rescue workers in Indonesia spent a final day looking for tsunami victims. The death toll has topped more than 2,000, but authorities say thousands of bodies could be buried under the mud. Also, 55 people…
Tanzania death toll 209 as survivor found in capsized ferry
As rescue divers probed a capsized Tanzanian ferry two days after the disaster and the death toll soared past 200, a man was found in an air pocket, alive.
Health workers selling simple cures door-to-door are saving lives
Even more than the pay, these community health workers are driven by the respect they receive for the services they provide.
Volunteers from some of the world’s biggest food producers, who decades ago took food-making from kitchen to the factory, are offering guidance to African entrepreneurs and helping nations become less dependent on imported food. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro…
At least 50 percent of Nairobi's population lives in slums, yet until a few years ago, many busy neighborhoods were blank spaces on official maps. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on the ways mapping technology is…
The cause of the fire that injured 70 people was not immediately announced, but the blaze is being treated as a crime scene, the Associated Press reported.
One U.S. special operations soldier was killed and four U.S. service members wounded in an “enemy attack” Friday in Somalia.
At least 44 were dead and another 40 were missing Thursday after a dam swollen by weeks of seasonal rains burst in Kenya's Rift Valley, sweeping away hundreds of homes and sending people fleeing, officials said.
