Kenya

A bomb attack on a United Nations (UN) vehicle left seven people dead in the Puntland region of Somalia.

According to an eyewitness, the bomb was attached to a UN bus, while initial reports spoke of a suicide attack, the BBC reports.

It is believed that the victims were Kenyan and Somali citizens working for the mission of the UN.

BELGRAD- Kenya's Silas Sang and Ethiopia's Abebu Gelean Adugna are the winners of the 28th Belgrade Marathon which gathered around 25,000 runners for a race along the streets of the Serbian capital.

BELGRADE - Serbian female athlete Ana Subotic and her male colleague Velimir Bojovic are the winners of the semi-marathon race at the traditional 28th Belgrade Marathon.

Member of the Javor club from Ivanjica, Subotic beat Nada Djurovic in the 21-kilometre race, while Bojovic of the Nis Marathon club triumphed over Kenya's Stanley Kipruto.

At least nine people were killed when suspected gunmen from Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab stormed the building of Somalia's Higher Education Ministry on Tuesday, triggering a shootout with security forces.

A spokesman for Al-Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack in the centre of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, the CNN reported.

BELGRADE - Long jump world record holder Galina Chistyakova is the promoter of the 28th Belgrade Marathon, to be held on Saturday, April 18.

Chistyakova is coming to Belgrade for the second time since 2008, when she was the promoter of the women's race, Belgrade Marathon Director Dejan Nikolic told a press conference on Monday.

Mark Korir of Kenya won the Paris Marathon on April 12, his first career victory in a prestigious international race.
      
Korir, 30, who was second in last month's Paris Half-Marathon, came home in a time of 2hr 05min 46sec, ahead of another Kenyan, Luka Kanda.
      
Seboka Tola of Ethiopia was third, with yet another Kenyan, Mike Kigen, fourth.
      

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has received massive criticism from opposition parties, political analysts and regular population on account of the untimely police reaction during the Garissa University terrorist attack.

A Nairobi court on April 7 ordered five Kenyans and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while police investigate possible connections to last week's university massacre.
      

Kenya launched air strikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a Kenyan college that killed 148 people, a military spokesman said April 6.
     
Warplanes attacked positions of the Shebab militant group on Sunday afternoon and early Monday morning, said Col. David Obonyo of the Kenyan military.
     

Kenyan fighter jets bombed on Sunday positions of the militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia in response to the recent terrorist attack carried against Garissa University College.

The military planes targeted two camps in the Gedo region, which are used by Al-Shabaab to cross into Kenya, the BBC reports.