Two categories, investigative reporting and feature writing, were opened to magazines this year, which prompted 60 additional entries. Jennifer Gonnerman was a finalist in the feature category for an article she wrote for The New Yorker on the imprisonment of a young man at the Rikers Island jail complex.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — At least four Unicef staff members were killed and four others were severely wounded in northeastern Somalia on Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their minibus, a United Nations statement said.
The attack occurred as the staff members were traveling to an office in Garowe from their guesthouse, a drive that normally takes three minutes, the statement said.
The Shabab struck twice last week in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Gunmen killed a regional lawmaker there on Saturday, and an attack outside the Ministry of Higher Education building on Tuesday left at least 19 people dead. The group also staged an assault on a university in eastern Kenya this month, killing nearly 150 people.
Nicholas Kay, the United Nations special representative to Somalia, condemned the attack via Twitter, saying that he was “shocked and appalled by loss of life.”
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali militants burst into a university in eastern Kenya on Thursday and killed nearly 150 students in the worst terrorist attack since the 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy here, laying bare the nation’s continuing vulnerability after years of battling Islamist extremism.
A small group of militants, most likely between four and 10, roved from dorm to dorm, separating Christian from Muslim students and killing the Christians, the authorities said. Students described being awakened before dawn by the sound of gunfire and fleeing for their lives as masked attackers closed in.