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Kenyan authorities said on Sunday that they have launched investigations into the twin grenade attacks that left at one person dead and 33 others injured to establish the motive behind the twin attacks

The Sudanese army on Saturday said South Sudan army was encroaching into Sudan’s territories in South Kordofan State on the border between the two countries, official SUNA news agency reported.

Tuareg separatist rebels in Mali say they have surrounded the historic town of Timbuktu after a rapid advance through the north of the country.

Leader of a tribe in western Zambia who is calling for the breakaway of the province from the rest of the country has gone into hiding, saying his life is in danger.

International humanitarian medical charity, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Saturday condemned the shelling of its hospital in Mogadishu which took place on Friday.

The party of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi declared that she had won a seat in Myanmar’s Parliament on Sunday, an unofficial result that may herald a new era for the country as it moves toward democracy after decades of oppressive military rule.

The United States vowed to nearly double its funding to the Syrian opposition, and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised the Syrian people “they will not be left alone” as leaders from around the world met to discuss ways to ramp up pressure on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

World parliamentarians meeting in the Ugandan capital Kampala for the 126th Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly are set to discuss the Syrian crisis, a conference spokesman said on Saturday.