Kenya’s president said on Tuesday that his forces had “defeated” Islamists from Somalia’s Al Shabaab, had shot five of them dead and detained 11 others suspected of killing 67 people after storming a Nairobi shopping mall. It remained unclear after Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the nation on television whether the four-day …

Thousands of people in Libya remain locked up in militia prisons, outside of state control, more than two years after the revolution, according to a new UN report presented to the Security Council. The report says many are suffering torture and mistreatment and calls the situation “unacceptable”. “We have a …

Tunisian Caretaker president Moncef Marzouki met on Monday evening in New York with US president Barack Obama who expressed his country’s unconditional commitment to support Tunisia in speeding up the completion of the transitional process so that it might be a model in the region.