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Seven hundred people have been arrested during a week of the worst unrest in central Sudan in years, the government said on Monday, as protests continued against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Kenya’s interior minister responded with shock and anger to a U.S. warning against travel to the country, suggesting that just because one of Kenya’s top tourist mall destinations was targeted for a terrorist attack doesn’t mean the West has to go on red alert and visitors have to switch their vacation plans.

Ivanishvili said no one can justify Russia’s “aggression” and “it is clear that territories are occupied”, but it would not have happened if not previous government’s “gross ignorance.”

Media commentary on the now-concluded siege of the Westgate mall in Nairobi demonstrates widespread recognition that a major shift has occurred in al Shabaab’s targets and threat-level. Where the media seems to slightly misinterpret the attack is explaining Westgate as a sudden dramatic increase in al Shabaab’s abilities. More than a dramatic jump in capacity, the attack shows a change in focus and motivation by al Shabaab’s core planners.