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Monday, September 23, 2013 - 13:16
Last month, we Nigerians received some startling news from the army: Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed some 3,000 people in northern Nigeria over the last four years, “might have died.”
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 13:24
A senior figure in the Somali militant group al-Shabab has told the BBC it carried out a deadly attack on a shopping centre in neighbouring Kenya.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 13:26
Somalia's al-Shabab militants have said they carried out the attack on a Nairobi shopping centre in "retribution" for Kenya's efforts to help the Somali government. Kenyan troops are part of the African Union force in the country. Despite losing ground, al-Shabab remains a potent threat as the BBC's Mark Doyle reports from Kismayo - once the group's main base.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 13:28
The United Nations has established a new peacekeeping brigade in Congo with a mandate to use force against rebel groups in the country’s east, including M23, one of the militias at the heart of nearly two decades of conflict.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 13:30
Sixty police officers from Burundi, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya and Rwanda yesterday completed United Nations Police Officers Course (UNPOC) at Gishari Police Training Centre.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 06:24
United States Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks on the occasion of the Republic of Guinea Bissau's national day.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 06:56
State Department spokespersons give readout of Secretary Kerry's meetings with the Saudi and Emirati foreign ministers, Jordanian King Abdullah , and Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy. Fahmy and Kerry discussed terrorism and press freedom in Egypt but did not talk about security assistance. The ongoing search for a resolution to the crisis in Syria dominated the other conversations, with some additional discussion about Iran with the Saudi foreign minister.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 08:41
Security forces mount assault on Kenyan shopping centre where al-Shabab fighters are holed up.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 08:46
Remarks by U.S. President Barack Obama before his scheduled meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, in New York for the UNGA.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 08:48
Remarks by Kenya's foreign minister on the alleged nationalities of those militants involved in the Nairobi mall attacks.