Kenya said it has asked the UN refugee agency to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees by July in the wake of the Garissa University massacre. “We have asked the UNHCR to relocate the refugees in three months” or “we shall relocate them ourselves”, a government statement quoted Vice …

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has publicly lifted his objections to a referendum that could give more powers to the restive regions engulfed in more than a year of warfare. The conflict between Russia-backed rebels and government troops in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 6,000 lives. When it began, protesters …

UN Security Council condemned on Tuesday in the strongest terms the recent terrorist attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram group in northeast Nigeria and Chad. Members of the Security Council extended their condolences to the families of the victims and their sympathy to all those injured, as well as to the …

Tunisia’s army spokesperson says an ambush by extremists in a mountainous region near the Algerian border has killed two soldiers and wounded three others. Brigadier General Belhassen Oueslati told the state news agency on Tuesday that the attack took place near the mountain of Mghilla in the central west of …

United Nations peacekeeping troops in Democratic Republic of Congo have launched operations against a Rwandan Hutu rebel militia operating along Congo’s border with Rwanda, the UN commander said on Tuesday. Defeating Rwandan FDLR insurgents, who have long been used as a pretext for intervention in Congo by neighbouring Rwanda, is …

Kenyans marched demanding greater national security on Tuesday following last week’s massacre by Somalia’s Shabaab Islamists, ahead of a candlelit vigil on the final day of mourning for the 148 people killed by the militants. Tuesday’s demonstration, with at least 200 students marching through central Nairobi waving placards, comes as …

A Nairobi court on April 7 ordered five Kenyans and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while police investigate possible connections to last week’s university massacre. The court agreed to state lawyers’ request for the extended detention period, which usually would last 24 hours before the detainee has …

The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to Syria’s Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp as residents described fleeing in terror after the arrival of jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The advance by the extremists into the battered neighbourhood of south Damascus has alarmed the …

French special forces on Monday rescued a Dutch national kidnapped nearly four years ago in northern Mali by AQIM extremists in an operation that killed a number of suspected militants, officials said. France’s defence ministry said Dutch hostage Sjaak Rijke, kidnapped in Timbuktu in November 2011, was freed during “military …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins an eight-day visit to France, Germany and Canada on Thursday in a bid to further his agenda to boost Indian manufacturing, ensure his country’s energy security and increase foreign investment. The focus of the prime minister’s three days in France will be a fighter …