[Capital FM] Nairobi -Search and rescue efforts were underway in Narok on Wednesday after flash floods claimed nine lives on Tuesday.

[Al Jazeera] Chatsworth -There is a lot of confusion here. No one in the camps for internally displaced people understands how they pose a threat to South Africans - nor why they're being killed for trying to make a living.

[UN News] United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has today condemned the outbreak of violence in Burundi following the nomination of President Pierre Nkurunziza as the presidential candidate of the country's ruling party, and appealed to all Burundians to "safeguard the hard won gains" made...

[UN News] The Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire in Western Sahara, known by the acronym MINURSO.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -Security has been beefed up in key installations recently mentioned in an intelligence report which warned they were targets of the Al-Shabaab terror group.

[UN News] Amid an upsurge in violence in Mali, the top United Nations official there today warned parties about the serious consequences their actions could have on the country's peace process.

[UN News] The heads of United Nations agencies with a stake in the current crisis in the Mediterranean Sea have pledged to working closely with the European Union (EU) following its decision "to mobilize all efforts at its disposal to prevent further loss of life at sea and to tackle the root...

[The Daily Vox] The president of the Wits Student Representative Council (SRC), Mcebo Dlamini, has come under fire after stating on Facebook that he "loves Adolf Hitler".

[Aswat Masriya] Cairo -The Giza Criminal Court sentenced on Wednesday 71 defendants to life in prison for breaking into a church in Kerdasa and torching it in August 2013, reported the state agency MENA.

[Independent (Lagos)] Abuja -The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on Tuesday in Abuja said Nigeria accounts for over 14 per cent of the World's maternal deaths.