Islamists launch three attacks in Somalia and Kenya in 24 hours

African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers assess the scene of an explosion after members of the al Shabaab Islamist group rammed a suicide truck bomb into their military base in the area of Beledweyne town, north of the capital Mogadishu, October 25, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer

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Obama voices support for gay rights as Africa trip nears

Workers finish installing a large billboard showing Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, left, and President Barack Obama, right, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, July 23, 2015. In his first trip to Kenya since he was a U.S. senator in 2006, Obama is scheduled to arrive in Kenya on Friday, the first stop on his two-nation African tour in which he will also visit Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Somali Islamists kill 147 in Kenya university massacre

A Kenya Defence Forces soldier stands guard before they ended a siege by gunmen in the university campus of Garissa on April 2, 2015 (AFP Photo/Carl de Souza)

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At least 15 dead as gunmen attack university in Kenya

Local residents donate blood at Garissa hospital, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Al-Shabab gunmen attacked Garissa University College in northeast Kenya early Thursday, targeting Christians and killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others, witnesses said. (AP Photo)

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Kenya police chief quits; Interior Minister fired

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Bodies of Kenyans lie at a quarry in Mandera County, Kenya, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Kenya police said that at least 36 quarry workers were killed in an attack in northern Kenya by suspected Islamic extremists from Somalia. Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo confirmed the workers were killed early Tuesday in Mandera County. (AP Photo)

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Somalia’s Al-Shabab says it killed 28 in Kenya

FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia. Suspected Islamic extremists from Somalia hijacked a bus at dawn near Mandera in Kenya’s north near the border with Somalia, and killed 28 non-Muslims on board after they had been singled out from the rest of the passengers, police officials said Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

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