The town hall of Munich, Germany.. (photo credit: ALEXANDRA BEIER / REUTERS) By Benjamin Weinthal The attacker has been identified as a 36-year-old Somali Parishioners said a man, who has been identified as a 36-year-old Somali, screamed Arabic phrases, including “Allah Akbar,” as he charged into the St. Paul’s Parish church on Saturday. The man

Is the new Sudanese government for sale already? Following the ousting of Omar al-Bashir as president of Sudan after a military take-over which was spurred by unending protests by defiant citizens, the Northeast African country has been in the news for different reasons. This is expected considering that this is the first time the country

Photo Reuters Nearly 90 percent of referendum voters approve constitutional amendments that could see president in power until 2030. Egyptian voters have overwhelmingly backed constitutional changes allowing President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to remain in power until 2030, the election commission has said.”These [changes] are effective from now as your constitution,” the commission’s chairman Lasheen Ibrahim

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi poses for a photo with heads of several African states during a consultative summit to discuss developments in Sudan and Libya, in Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2019 in this handout picture courtesy of the Egyptian Presidency. The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS CAIRO (Reuters) – African leaders meeting in Cairo on

Ten people were killed and more than 30 injured when a policeman rammed his car into a group of children during an Easter procession in northeast Nigeria, before being killed himself by the angry crowd, witnesses and police sources said on Monday. The deadly incident happened late Sunday when the off-duty policeman ploughed his car

Photo Reuters Wary that the Gulf countries may be vying for influence, protesters reject aid offers made by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. Khartoum, Sudan – Sudanese protesters have called on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to “keep their money” a day after Riyadh and Abu Dhabi offered to send Khartoum $3bn aid. Hours

The robbers who stole Sh11 million from four ATMs belonging to Barclays in Nairobi over the Easter weekend belonged to one gang suspected to have worked in cahoots with employees from the bank and a security company. On Monday, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), who have taken over the case, detained five

AFP / Jewel SAMAD Security personnel inspect St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo a day after it was hit in a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka said Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as

World leaders condemn bombings that hit churches and hotels, killing scores of civilians The international community has reacted to Sunday’s bombings in Sri Lanka, which left at least 185 people dead hundreds of others wounded. The bombings targeted eight different locations — including churches where Christians were marking Easter Sunday — and 5-star hotels in

Photo Bloomberg Multiple explosions rocked three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka during Easter Sunday mass, leaving at least 138 dead in the worst violence since the civil war ended a decade ago. The coordinated blasts took place at 8:45am local time in churches in capital city Colombo and the towns of Negombo