An Indian man was shot when he failed to answer a question on Islam asked by Somalian militants who were holding hostages after killing 68 people at an upmarket mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Kenyan troops backed by Israeli forces battled Sunday to end a siege in an upmarket shopping mall and free hostages held by Somali militants in an attack that has so far killed 59 people.

Ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is still in hospital in a critical but stable condition, the South African Presidency said Saturday, denying media reports that the former President had been discharged.

Egypt’s government Tuesday pressed its fierce campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, effectively decapitating the Islamist group by arresting its supreme guide.

Suspected Islamic militants wearing Army uniforms gunned down at least 44 worshippers at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the latest in a string of attacks blamed on radical extremists.

Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi marched defiantly through Cairo on Monday in a new show of force after the expiry of a government ultimatum to dismantle their huge protest camps.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Monday said those upset by his disputed landslide election victory could “go hang.”

Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President have dug in at their two Cairo sit-ins after security officials said police would besiege the entrenched protest camps within 24 hours, perhaps as early as Monday morning.

International flights landed at Nairobi airport Thursday, the first since a fire a day earlier gutted the arrivals terminal causing widespread chaos and delays, airport officials said.