Dozens of mostly Muslim countries from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia have joined a new military alliance to combat terrorism, Saudi Arabia has announced.
The leader of Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, has been killed in a US air strike.
Fijian police are investigating an unverified video purporting to show Fijian fishermen being shot at by men aboard another vessel, although the “fishermen” may be Somali pirates.
An attack by Islamist militant group al-Shebab on the Somali parliament in Mogadishu has left at least eleven people dead.
Two UN consultants have been shot and killed shortly after getting off a plane in Somalia.