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A 14-year-old Nigerian child bride is facing the death penalty for allegedly murdering her 35-year-old husband with rat poison.

President Kenyatta Wednesday told Kenyans to stop blaming his government alone for rising insecurity and play their role in securing the country.

Two female suicide bombers have blown themselves up at a crowded market in northern Nigeria's Maiduguri city, causing many casualties, witnesses say.

Hundreds of non-locals working in Mandera have fled their homes and are camping at the Kenya Defence Forces airstrip demanding to be evacuated.

Police in Uganda have amended the charge sheet of the 22-year-old maid, who was caught on camera brutalising one-and-half-year-old child, from torture to attempted murder.

A school lost seven teachers in the Saturday morning bus attack by suspected Al-Shabaab militia.

Kenyan security forces have killed 100 militants, an official said Sunday, one day after a deadly attack on a bus.

The Kenyan militry has killed more than 100 al-Shabab militants linked to a deadly attack on a bus, Kenya's deputy president says.

William Ruto said the armed forces had carried out two operations in Somalia, destroying equipment and a camp from which the bus attack was planned.

In Saturday's attack, gunmen pulled non-Muslims passengers from a bus in northern Kenya, killing 28 of them.

A local governor said a total security overhaul was needed.

Al-Shabab has carried out a series of attacks in Kenya since 2011, the year that Kenya sent troops into Somalia to help battle the Islamist group.

Mr Ruto gave details of the military operation after attending a Sunday service at a church in Nyahururu.

"I can assure you that those behind the attack did not even take their supper," he was quoted as saying by the Standard newspaper.

"They were killed by our officers who we sent out immediately after the attack. They di

Voting started at 7am local time (06:00 GMT) on Sunday and polling stations will close at 6pm. More than 4,500 polling booths have been set up to receive more than 5.2 million eligible voters.

The slaughter of 28 people on a bus in Kenya is a bid to start a religious war, a senior adviser to President Uhuru Kenyatta has told the BBC.

A Funeral has been held in Uganda for a boy of two, whose death sparked an uproar because he was run over by a council vehicle after his mother was arrested for selling fruits illegally.

Zambia's Patriotic Front (PF) has suspended President Guy Scott for "not respecting the constitution", a spokesman has told the BBC.

Kenya's Cabinet has ordered police to investigate how 12,500 ghost workers ended up in the government payroll.

ABUJA-MORE than 120 lawmakers have  appended their signatures for the impeachment of President Goodluck,immediately House reconvenes in December.

The authorities in Burkina Faso have appointed an army officer, Lt Col Isaac Zida, as transitional prime minister.

Nearly half of all Liberians who were employed when the Ebola outbreak began are no longer working, a survey by the World Bank has found.

A Cuban doctor working in West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola, officials have said.

Boko Haram militants have shot and injured the acting Brigade commander of 23rd Brigade in Yola.