Gunmen slay Somali official, blast kills teen
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Somali gunmen shot dead a senior  government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a  teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union  peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday.
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A gunman who shot and injured three people -- including one of two hostages he held in a South African restaurant -- was killed in a shootout on Saturday when police stormed the building, a police spokeswoman said.
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A grenade attack in Ethiopia's volatile Somali region on Monday wounded the local president, killed five people at a packed ceremony and sparked a stampede that left a further six dead, witnesses said.
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At least 13 people die as gunmen enter the house of a government official in north-west Pakistan, police say.
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A suicide car bomb killed at least seven people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on rival Islamists amid rising fears of war in the chaotic nation.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - One person was killed and   several others wounded when a car exploded outside Somalia's   parliament in Baidoa on Monday in an assassination attempt on   President Abdullahi Yusuf, Somalia's foreign minister said.
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An explosion in a Somalia kills at least 15 people, who were apparently waiting for a boat to the Arabian peninsula.
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Four people including at least two foreign aid workers and a Somali are killed in an explosion in southern Somalia.
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The Nairobi residence of the newly elected Somali president is attacked by unknown gunmen.
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A Pakistani provincial government minister is shot dead as she prepares to address a political meeting.
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A suicide bomber killed seven people outside the Somali prime minister's home in Mogadishu on Sunday, just hours after an official said Western jihadists were among the dead from U.S. strikes in the north.
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Somalia's presidential spokesman was shot twice at close range in the latest assassination attempt on government officials in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said on Tuesday.
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Unidentified gunmen killed a police official in this northern Iraqi city, provincial authorities said.
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A car exploded in Mogadishu on Sunday killing its four occupants and assailants shot dead a Somali government soldier, witnesses said, in the latest violence in the chaotic city hit by near-daily attacks.
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Gunmen shot and killed a senior official from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah party Tuesday in the Balata refugee camp, party officials said.
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Gunmen shoot and kill a senior official in Iraq's communication ministry on his way to work in Baghdad.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - A car bomb killed five people   and wounded several others outside parliament in Somalia's   provincial capital Baidoa on Monday in an assassination attempt   on President Abdullahi Yusuf.