The “White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite and the Kenya mall attack

Samantha Lewthwaite, the youngest daughter of a British soldier, the shy, gawky schoolgirl who all teachers loved, is now the world’s most wanted woman after the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall
 last Saturday.

Nigeria militant attack on college dorm kills dozens

Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms in an ongoing Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria, the school's provost said.

JK: I'll order TPDF to fight poaching

Following increased illegal poaching of elephants and rhinos in the country’s national parks, President Jakaya Kikwete has announced he will personally command the Tanzania People’s Defense Forces (TPDF) to help fight the vice.

A Statement issued by the Directorate of Communications at State House said in Dar es Salaam yesterday said that President Kikwete, who is commnder-in-chief of the armed forces, announced his intended move following rampant killings of the animals alongside wanton felling of trees for charcoal.

The president made the announcement at UN headquarter in New York city on Thursday this week when he met fellow world leaders at a meeting convened to discuss wildlife poaching and illegal businesses in wood planks across the world.

Kirstie Trup: Acid attack victim vows to return to Zanzibar, but is ‘frustrated’ at slow progress of case

One of the two young women who suffered horrific injuries in a seemingly unprovoked acid attack in Zanzibar has vowed to return to the area to continue her humanitarian work, but has expressed annoyance at the lack of progress in their case. Eighteen-year-olds Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee, both from London, were volunteering with disadvantaged children in the East African nation of Tanzania when the incident happened. They were walking through the Stone Town area of Zanzibar City after dining out when two smiling men on a moped threw acid on them as they whizzed past. Brave Trup has now said that she feels ‘very frustrated and upset that our attackers haven’t been caught,’ and fears that they never will be. Speaking to the Sunday Times, she questioned why, despite giving a detailed description of the event, her attackers have not be brought to justice in a community in which ‘everyone knows everyone.’ ‘Stone Town is too small for it to be this hard and I fear they will never be caught,’ she said.

VURUGU MISRI: CAIRO KIMYA BAADA YA VIFO

Mji mkuu wa Misri Cairo umeripotiwa kuwa kimya, baada ya operesheni ya kinyama dhidi ya waandamanaji wanaomuunga mkono rais aliyepinduliwa Mohammed Morsi kupelekea vifo vya mamia ya raia. Mauaji hayo yamezua shutuma kutoka jamii ya kimataifa.
Zaidi ya watu 278 waliuwawa wakati maafisa wa usalama waliposhambulia kambi mbili za wafuasi wa Bwana Morsi. Kambi hizo zilianzishwa mwezi uliopita kupinga hatua ya jeshi kumng'oa rais huyo anayezingatia itikadi za kiislamu.
Hali ya hatari imetangazwa na amri ya kutotoka nje nyakati za usiku kutolewa katika miji mikuu ya Misri.

Kirstie Trup has secured a place to study history at Bristol University weeks after horrific attack

Nokia reportedly plans a 5.2in phablet and 10in Windows RT slate

FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia reportedly plans to launch a 5.2in phablet device and a 10in Windows RT tablet this year.

Chinese news website Dopsy managed to get its hands on a promotional picture of the device, tipped to launch as the Nokia Lumia 825, which unlike the big screen Lumia 625 will be a high-end device.

If this leak is the real deal, the Nokia Lumia 825 will have a quad-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor along with a 5.2in display. Unfortunately, despite its size, this won't be the first HD 1080p Windows Phone device, with the handset instead featuring a 1280x720 resolution screen.

That's pretty much all we know about Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone 'phablet' device so far, with its announcement reportedly set for October.