The attacks were the worst act of violence to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that killed up to 100 000 people
There have been no claims of responsibility for the suicide bombing, although authorities believe jihadi group Boko Haram is responsible
Abu and Gardere worked as teachers in Somalia before joining Islamic extremist group al-Shabab. But what made them decide to leave?
Following attacks in Paris and now Brussels, investigators continue to track down those responsible.
Four days after the arrest of a suspect of the Paris attack that killed 130 people, blasts have gone off at Brussels airport and a metro station.
Survivors of the Boko Haram massacre that took place around the town of Baga, Nigeria, describe the militants slaughtering some people "like insects".
Werner Groenewald, the South African aid worker killed in Afghanistan, tried to protect his children from the gunmen after he was shot in the leg.
A day after a deadly suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd, Russia, a blast in the same city has left 10 people dead.
The death toll in Volgograd, Russia, has risen to 16 after a suicide bomber targeted a train station in the city ahead of the Olympic Games.
Security forces in Iraq have freed hostages at a city council office and killed one suicide bomber, says an official.
Chinese authorities investigating what could be Beijing’s first major suicide attack have been searching for two men from Muslim-dominated Xinjiang.
The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.
At least 50 people have died after a vehicle laden with explosives was detonated by a suicide bomber near government buildings in central Mogadishu.
Five simultaneous suicide attacks targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials have said.
The police chief of northern Afghanistan had been among seven people killed in a suicide bombing at the Takhar governor’s office.
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/ 25 September 2009
Defence ministers from Uganda, Burundi and Somalia met on Friday in Kampala over the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
At least 15 people were killed and another 60, including a government minister, wounded on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in southern Sri Lanka.
At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday and another 60, including a government minister, were wounded in a suicide bombing in southern Sri Lanka.
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/ 19 December 2008
Pakistan will issue a new 10-rupee coin in honour of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto to coincide with the first anniversary of her death.
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/ 31 October 2008
Indian police interrogated about a dozen people on Friday over suspected links to bombings this week in the state of Assam that claimed 76 lives.
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/ 30 October 2008
North Somali authorities said on Thursday they had arrested a prominent local sheikh suspected of involvement in a wave of suicide attacks.
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber attacked a convoy ferrying a Sri Lankan Cabinet minister outside the capital, Colombo, on Thursday.
A suicide bomber in a car killed 25 people on Thursday and a roadside bomb killed five members of a family in Diyala, Iraq, police and witnesses said.
A suicide attack on an Algerian police school at Issers, 60km east of Algiers, killed 43 people and injured 38, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
Pakistani Taliban militants murdered 22 rivals captured this week when they seized a north-western town, a government official said.