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At risk: Springbok Aphiwe Dyantyi injured his hamstring during his last Super Rugby match, but has been declared fit to play for the Lions against the Crusaders on Saturday. (Reuters)

Zimbabwe police make two arrests over election rally blast

About 50 people were injured in the blast, which exploded as Mnangagwa left the podium after addressing supporters of the ruling ZANU-PF party

Somali soldiers patrol Mogadishu’s once bustling central district

‘Somalis must stand united and fight’

The president and citizens believe they must urgently stop al-Shabab ‘before they kill all of us’

Two men drag the body of a person killed in the explosion of a truck bomb in the centre of Mogadishu.

Al-Shabab’s show of force backfires disastrously

Despite years of conflict, al-Shabab remains a potent military and political force, able to occupy territory and launch terror attacks

The bombing of a Buddhist shrine in Bangkok last week killed 19 people. It came as tension rises over indications that the election date may be delayed.

Bombing catches junta off-guard

No one has claimed responsibility for the blast in Thailand, with everyone from Islamist groups and the Uighur to a lone operative being blamed.

There are fears that Washington could pull its troops out of Afghanistan

Nato sends warning as Taliban truck bombs rock Afganistan

A Taliban attack has killed 18 people and wounded around 150 in Afghanistan, while Nato has warned that accords over Afghan troops have to be signed.

The Central African Republic (CAR) suffers myriad problems, but violent extremism of the kind facing its neighbours, like Cameroon above, is not one of them. Is it just a matter of time?

Nigeria sits on sectarian powder keg

Terrorists are counting on sowing hatred in deeply divided places like the city of Jos, which has long been a flashpoint for ethnic tensions.

More than 274 people have been killed in the rebel-on-rebel clashes in Syria since they began on Friday.

Barrel bombs kill dozens in Syria

Air raids using barrel bombs in Syria’s second city of Aleppo have killed at least 76 people, including 28 children.

The State Department also noted that Saturday’s violence in Iraq follows an especially bloody few months in the country.

US condemns Baghdad attackers as ‘enemies of Islam’

The United States has condemned the perpetrators of deadly attacks in Iraq as "enemies of Islam" and called the acts "cowardly".

Suicide bomber kills 25 at Pakistan election rally

A suicide bomber has targeted an election rally organised by a religious party in Pakistan, killing 25 people, officials say.

The resolution

Human Rights Watch: Syrian airstrikes

VIDEO: Footage by Human Rights Watch in Syria shows the government allegedly blowing up civilian hospitals and bread lines.

According to Mariette Liefferink

Bomb attacks increase in Pakistan as latest blast kills 8

A bomb has killed eight people in Pakistan, including the son of an Afghan cleric, and wounded about 45 in the city of Peshawar, officials have said.

Images taken from a video released by the FBI

1 MIT shooting suspect killed after hijacking

A suspect in the shooting of an MIT guard is dead, and a manhunt is on for another – both of whom are believed to be involved in the Boston bombings.

A young girl cries with her mother during the vigil for eight-year-old Martin Richard

Boston Marathon bombings: Stories of the dead, injured

The bombs at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 170. Here are the stories of those killed and some of the injured.

Investigators

Marathon bombs possibly made from pressure cookers, say FBI

The explosives detonated at the Boston Marathon were homemade devices full of nails, possibly packed into kitchen pressure cookers, say US officials.

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Runner Kalmer says SA athletes are safe

SA athlete Rene Kalmer says she has not heard of South African casualties at the Boston Marathon after blasts at the finish line killed three people.

Explosion kills 12 in Aleppo

Twelve people were killed when an explosion rocked a government-held district of the disputed Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.

Workers restore Timbuktu’s Great Mosque in 2006.

Malians seethe over desecration

The attacks by Islamist hardliners on tombs and mosques is ratcheting up the pressure in the south of Mali. Monica Mark reports.

Mamman Nur masterminded UN attack

Mamman Nur masterminded UN attack, says Nigeria

Nigerian authorities say the man behind the attack on UN headquarters in Abuja last week is the al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram sect’s Mamman Nur.

Bombs target police in Iraq’s Kirkuk

A series of attacks against police in the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday killed at least 25 people and wounded 79 others.

Kenyan police ramp up patrols after blast

Kenyan police intensified security following an explosion at a Nairobi bus station which killed three people and injured dozens of others.