Nairobi

The United States condemns recent attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Kurdish militants in Turkey, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Twitter, adding there was "no connection" between Turkey's strikes against the PKK and a deal to intesify the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

US President Barack Obama arrives in his ancestral homeland Kenya late July 24, with a massive security operation under way to protect him from Al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants.

BELGRADE - Long jump world record holder Galina Chistyakova is the promoter of the 28th Belgrade Marathon, to be held on Saturday, April 18.

Chistyakova is coming to Belgrade for the second time since 2008, when she was the promoter of the women's race, Belgrade Marathon Director Dejan Nikolic told a press conference on Monday.

Kenyan special forces took at least seven hours to deploy at a university massacre in which almost 150 people were killed, scathing reports said Sunday, but security chief defended their response.
      

At least 70 hostages have been killed in Thursday's attack by Islamist militants on a university campus in Kenya, the BBC reported, citing officials.

According to Kenyan authorities, at least 79 were injured while more than 500 students were rescued from the Garissa University College campus.

Gunmen have killed at least fifteen people and taken students as hostages at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia.

According to aid workers and police, about 30 people were injured as five masked gunmen stormed the building of the university, the BBC reports.

Namibia's outgoing president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's $5 million African leadership prize, an award meant to recognise good governance that has been presented only three times in eight years.
   

The United Nations' top climate change official will not chair a key meeting in Kenya next week as Indian police investigate a sexual harassment complaint against him, officials said Feb. 22.
      
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), pulled out due to "issues demanding his attention", the UN body said.

A 63-year-old retired schoolteacher was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of illegally importing large quantities of the contraband stimulant khat from Africa and selling it in the United States, all via the postal service.

There is every evidence that Kenyans may be conspiring with intergalactic forces - and all but a few of the world’s U.N. member nations - to stop Turkey’s enviable rise and rise. They do this by perishing by the dozens.