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What Islamic State is doing is against Islam, South African Muslim cleric stress. The militants do not act in the name of Islam or any religion, they say. "No religion condones murder." The Muslim Judicial Council has urged its leaders to speak out against the terror group.

Western media reports on the Garissa University College attacks in Kenya, where 148 students were killed by al-Shabaab militants, have been sparse. Social media users have been vocal about their outrage at the "complicit silence" regarding what the Pope called "senseless brutality".

South African disaster relief organisation Gift of the Givers is answering the call to help some of the millions of people starving in Somalia, where the UN has declared a famine amidst the Horn of Africa's worst drought in decades.
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