SOMALIA

“We never promised 'one person, one vote' and to make a ballot box available in every meter of the country,” Somalia's president said.

The keynote address Tuesday in Ethiopia's capital marked the end of U.S. President Barack Obama's five-day, two-nation tour of East Africa.

President Obama ended his tour of East Africa with a speech Tuesday at the African Union in Ethiopia. He is the first U.S. president to ever address the 54-member regional bloc.

Ethiopia has long been considered one of the most repressive regimes in Africa, but it has faced little pushback from Washington.

The White House said the bombing is "yet another reminder of the unconscionable atrocities that terrorist groups continue to perpetrate against the people of Somalia."

Abdullahi Hussein Mohamud Bantu is the 10th member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia to be killed within the past year.

The White House does not plan to change President Barack Obama's itinerary for his trip to Kenya later this week despite disclosure of the presidential plane's Nairobi arrival and departure times.

Residents say soldiers opened fire on unarmed teens playing soccer and then dragged residents out of their homes and executed them.

Ugandan helicopters will bolster forces in the fight against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab insurgency before President Obama visits Kenya later this week.

Shoppers have returned to the Nairobi retail mall where a four-day siege by terrorists killed 67 people in 2013.

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Aiming at al-Shabab, Kenyan warplanes killed five Somali children on their way to a religious school Sunday, local residents told news organizations.

Last month, the Somalia-based terrorist group threatened to attack "non-believers" in Kenya during Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan.

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As many as 1,500 soldiers could be charged with forging false documents, a military source told a local Ugandan newspaper.

"We are planning to give Kenyan non-believers a true taste of Jihad in the next few days and weeks," a senior al-Shabab commander said.

Technology companies should take measures to prevent extremist groups from using the Internet to spread their 'distorted ideology,' the U.N. says.

The attack, claimed by the al-Shabab terror group, was reportedly aimed at a group of visiting officials from the UAE.

Nairobi's is aiming to choke off the flow of money to Islamists whose cross-border raids have hammered Kenya and its tourism industry.

The assault is the latest in a string of attacks carried out by the jihadist group al-Shabab, targeting the Western-backed government in Somalia.