A rude monkey just wrested control of a country without even really trying, sending it plunging into darkness. Meanwhile, in Kenya, a small animal fell into a power grid, causing a nationwide blackout.

Flying over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, an Air France jetliner was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a passenger noticed a suspicious device in the bathroom. Later, the CEO of Air France said the scare was a “false alarm.”

My mama is 79. Wednesday night is her bible study. Just like Ms. Ethel Lee Lance, mama has her circle of church going elders—black women in their 60s, 70s, and 80s for whom church is home. Maybe even safer than home. Their pain was safe in the hands of this particular Jesus. Unshed tears from the Middle Passage were here. Friendships decades deep were here. Sanctuary was here. Comfort, too. Prayers unheard by a black community too often deaf to the pain of black girls and women were heard here, by this Jesus. Or so they thought.

Kenyan authorities have identified the son of a governmental official as one of four Islamic extremists behind this week's massacre at Garissa University College, the BBC reports.

al-Shabab gunmen led a rampage on the Garissa University College campus in eastern Kenya Tuesday morning, killing at least 15 people and taking an unknown number of hostages. The National Disaster Operation Center of Kenya told the New York Times that 65 people were admitted to a local hospital, “most with gunshot wounds.”

Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a bus attack that killed 28 people in Northern Kenya this morning, CNN reports. According to Reuters, gunmen separated passengers into groups of Muslims and suspected non-Muslims, sparing those who could recite the Koran.

Kenyan officials announced that they'll be closing the country's borders to travelers from countries that have been affected by Ebola, as a means for preventing the spread of the disease.

The Kenya Red Cross reported today that gunmen killed at least 22 people in overnight attacks on two separate counties on the Kenyan coast.

One day after gunmen terrorized the coastal town of Mpeketoni, Kenya, slaughtering 48 people, a second attack on the nearby villages Poromoko and Pagani left at least nine more dead, according to local police.

Gunmen killed at least 48 people in an attack on Mpeketoni, Kenya yesterday evening. No entity has claimed responsibility for the assault, but Kenyan police believe it was carried out by Al Shabaab, the Islamist militant group behind last year's Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi.

A man tries to escape from a tear-gas-filled building at Nairobi University before being chased back inside by riot police on Tuesday. Kenyan university students protested a proposed increase in fees, but that turned into battles between students throwing rocks and security firing tear gas. Image via Ben Curtis/AP.

A man who was convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to ten years in prison last Friday was forced by the court to face his victim: A common household goat.

A Somalia-born Norwegian national is now considered a suspect in the Kenyan mall attack last month that left dozens dead.

The family of a four-year-old boy who lived through the Westgate shopping mall attack says the now-iconic photo in which he can be seen wearing Crocs and an I Heart NY T-shirt while standing near the body of a deceased victim doesn't do the child's bravery justice.

As the hostage situation at Nairobi's Westgate mall entered its fourth day, there were conflicting reports from Kenyan officials, who claim the rescue operation is all but over, and militant group al Shabab, who said on Twitter that their fighters were "holding their ground."

There were reports of “large explosions” and gunfire as Kenyan forces continued their operation to free the remaining hostages in Nairobi's Westgate mall. In the three days since the attack began, 62 people have been killed, with at least another 175 injured, including many children. Two of the alleged terrorists are now confirmed dead.

The number of confirmed dead during a terrorist attack and standoff at an upscale Nairobi mall now stands at 68, as Kenyan forces begin an operation to end the standoff with al-Shabab militants who are holding around 30 hostages inside the mall.

In the largest terrorist attack in Kenya since the 1998 bombings of two American embassies, masked gunmen associated with the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed an upscale mall, killing at least 59 people and taking an unknown amount hostage.

A group of gunmen charged into a mall in Nairobi on Saturday, firing indiscriminately and killing at least 20, according to CNN.

A 20-year-old mother in Kenya who gave birth to twin boys on the day of the U.S. Presidential election has named her sons Barack and Mitt, after the United States president and a model of a robot briefly manufactured in the 1940s as a companion for lonely children.