Five suspects held over Kenya attack

Security forces in Kenya kill five people suspected of involvement in attacks that killed at least 60 people, amid doubts over the identity of the gunmen.

Several people are arrested after $2m (£1.2m) worth of gold and silver is stolen from the Egyptian finance ministry's coinage department.

Five people are arrested in Sicily, accused of multiple homicide and human trafficking, following the drowning of more than 200 migrants in the Mediterranean.

>A Tanzanian national is among suspects seized over the record $312 million (about Sh500 billion) heroin intercepted by an Australian navy ship last month off the Kenyan coast.

The Express Tribune
Pakistanis among suspects held in huge Tanzania heroin haul
The Express Tribune
The haul would have a street value of up to €10 million euros in Europe. PHOTO: AFP/FILE. Tanzanian anti-narcotics police have arrested eight Iranians and four Pakistanis during a drug bust in which 200 kilogrammes of heroin was recovered off the east ...
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>The trial of four men charged in connection with Kenya’s Westgate mall massacre opened today, an attack claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked “A-Shabaab insurgents.

More suspects arraigned in Arusha bomb attack
Daily News
The very first suspect to be arrested on bombing charges, Mr Victor Ambrosi Calisti appeared in court on Friday but was shocked to find himself joined with other recently apprehended persons. Victor Ambrose and 12 other suspects appeared before Resident ...

17 held over child with albinism (6) attack
Daily News
POLICE in Rukwa Region have apprehended 17 people linked with the grisly incident in which a six-year old child with albinism, Baraka Yoram, was attacked by unknown assailants who chopped off his right palm and made away with it at Kipeta Village ...

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with an attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali officials say.