Tourism in Kenya is experiencing sustained growth with minimal long-term impact from a hotel attack in Nairobi that killed 21 people in January.
The mayor of Mogadishu has died from injuries sustained in an al-Shabaab terrorist attack in his office last week.
A court in Kenya has found three men guilty of abetting al-Shabaab militants who carried out the Garissa University attack that killed 148 people in 2015.
The United Nations Security Council has decided to reduce the number of troops serving in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) by 1,000 personnel.
Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez has said he is working with leaders from Kenya and Somalia to secure the return of two Cuban doctors abducted by gunmen last week.
At least 11 people have been killed after al-Shabaab militants attacked a government building in the capital, Mogadishu.
Amnesty International says there is credible evidence that US airstrikes in Somalia are killing civilians.
At least eight people have been killed in an explosion at a livestock market in Somalia’s southwestern Bay region.
The US military has conducted an airstrike in Somalia in response to an attack by al-Shabaab militants against a Somali-led force and its accompanying US military advisors.
The United States military says it has killed 55 al-Shabaab militants during airstrikes over the past two days.
