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In this Aug. 26, 2019, file photo released by the U.S. Air Force, airmen from the 475th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron conduct a flag-raising ceremony, signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations, at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. airstrike kills terrorist who plotted deadly Kenya attack

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Officials say US airstrike kills telecom worker in Somalia

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

3 killed by al-Shabab extremists in bus attack in Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 15, 2017 file photo, protesters wave signs and chant during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. The Trump administration has agreed to speed up the cases of some former interpreters for the U.S. military in Iraq. The decision also affects hundreds of other refugees whose efforts to move to the United States have been in limbo since he announced his travel bans three years ago. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

US speeds cases of translators, others blocked by travel ban

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, a young desert locust that has not yet grown wings is stuck in a spider's web on a thorny bush in the desert near Garowe, in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia. The desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa, but the hopping young locusts are the next wave in the outbreak that threatens more than 10 million people across the region with a severe hunger crisis. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

“Where it begins”: Young hungry locusts bulk up in Somalia

By JOSPHAT KASIRE and BEN CURTIS - Associated Press

Desert locusts are decimating farmers' crops in mere days and threatening the food security of millions in countries from India eastward to Kenya and Ethiopia. It's Kenya's worst outbreak in 70 years. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

African nations struggle with once-in-generation locust plague

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

At least 2 killed, 20 wounded in bombing near Somali capital

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

A member of Kenya's security forces walks past a damaged police post after an attack by al-Shabab extremists in the settlement of Kamuthe in Garissa county, Kenya Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. The militants from neighboring Somalia attacked the settlement killing three teachers, setting fire to a police post, and destroying a telecommunications mast, police said in a report seen by The Associated Press. (AP Photo)

Al-Shabab extremists kill 3 teachers in Kenya, abduct 1

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Security forces and others walk past the wreckage of vehicles after a vehicle bomb attack on a security checkpoint located near the presidential palace, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Car bomb kills 3, wounds 6 at checkpoint in Somali capital

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

4 children shot dead in latest al-Shabab attack in Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and released by the U.S. Air Force, airmen from the 475th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron conduct a flag-raising ceremony, signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations, at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. The al-Shabab extremist group said Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 that it has attacked the Camp Simba military base used by U.S. and Kenyan troops in coastal Kenya, while Kenya's military says the attempted pre-dawn breach was repulsed and at least four attackers were killed. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Extremists attack Kenya military base, 3 Americans killed

By ABDI GULED and TOM ODULA and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Devin Boyer, 435th Air Expeditionary Wing photojournalist, salutes the flag during a ceremony signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. The al-Shabab extremist group said Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 that it has attacked the Camp Simba military base used by U.S. and Kenyan troops in coastal Kenya, while Kenya's military says the attempted pre-dawn breach was repulsed and at least four attackers were killed. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Al-Shabab attacks Camp Simba, U.S. military base in Kenya

By Abdi Guled, Tom Odula and Carl Anna - Associated Press

A man looks at a bus which was ambushed by gunmen in the Nyongoro area of Lamu county, near the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. Kenya police say four people have been killed on Thursday in two ambushes in which passenger buses in the country's eastern coastal area were fired on by gunmen, and for which Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility. (AP Photo)

Kenyan officials say extremist attack on bus convoy kills 4

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Medical personnel carry a civilian who was wounded in suicide car bomb attack at check point in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, Dec, 28, 2019. A police officer says a car bomb has detonated at a security checkpoint during the morning rush hour in Somalia's capital. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsame)

Somalia bombing kills dozens; airstrikes target militants

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

Somali security forces guard the entrance to the SYL hotel which was attacked by al-Shabab Islamic extremist rebels on Tuesday night, in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Five heavily armed gunmen attacked the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Tuesday before all were killed by security forces in a shootout that spread from the heavily fortified government complex to the nearby hotel, police said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) ** FILE **

Al-Shabab extremist attack on Somali base kills 3 soldiers

Associated Press

Police: Al-Shabab extremists kill 8 on bus in northern Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Relatives of Somali Canadian peace activist Almaas Elman shout &quot;We need Justice&quot; outside the Mosque of Islamic Solidarity where her funeral service was held, in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Preliminary investigations show Almaas Elman was killed by a stray bullet inside a heavily defended base near the international airport earlier this week in Mogadishu, the peacekeeping mission in Somalia said Friday. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali Canadian peace activist was killed by stray bullet

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Somali official: 2020 could see first election in 50 years

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

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. U.N. experts said in a report circulated Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 that al-Shabab extremists in Somalia remain &quot;a potent threat&quot; to regional peace and are manufacturing home-made explosives, expanding their revenue sources and infiltrating government institutions. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

UN adds explosive components ban to Somalia arms embargo

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 file photo, Kenyan army soldiers ride on a vehicle at their base in Tabda, inside Somalia. A United Nations report published in Nov. 2019 says it has corroborated evidence of five attacks allegedly carried out by Kenya's military on communication masts belonging to neighboring Somalia's largest telecom provider Hormuud Telecom Somalia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN links Kenyan military to attacks on Somalia’s top telecom

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press