At least three Somali government soldiers were killed and three others wounded on Tuesday in a roadside bomb explosion outside the capital Mogadishu, security officials and witnesses said.

Officials blamed the attack on "terrorist elements", a reference to the Horn of Africa nation's Al-Qaida-affiliated Shebab rebels.

A British jihadist fighting for Somalia's al-Qaida affiliate, the Shebab, is believed to have been killed in a thwarted attack on a Kenyan army base, a Kenyan defense spokesman said.

Thomas Evans is believed to have been among a group of militants who launched a pre-dawn raid Sunday on a Kenyan army base in Baure, close to the border with Somalia.

Suspected Shebab gunmen raided a Kenyan military base and briefly took over a village Sunday in the latest attacks highlighting the insecurity that plagues parts of the country.

Both attacks in Lamu county on Kenya's coast close to the border with Somalia, were blamed on the Somali-led al-Qaida affiliate that has in recent months focused more attention on Kenya.

Canadian federal police announced Friday the arrest of a Somali national in the 2008 kidnapping of Canadian and Australian journalists.

Ali Omar Ader had been in Ottawa for "a few days" before he was taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police national security unit.

Three people have died in an attack by suspected Shebab militants in Kenya's northeastern Wajir county that borders Somalia, officials said Sunday.

Wajir county's police commander, Samuel Mukindia, said a group of gunmen opened fire in a residential area late on Saturday, killing two men and a women before escaping.

An international military intervention is needed to end unrest in Libya, where the Islamic State group is gaining a foothold, Spanish Defense Minister Pedro Morenes said in an interview published Saturday.

"We went to Afghanistan to stop all of that from coming here, we are in Iraq, Mali or Somalia with the same objective. And now we have it nearby. Something may need to be done," he told the top-selling Spanish daily El Pais when asked if there would be a military intervention in Libya.

From hit and run attacks and massacres to a shopping trip, Somali-led Shebab militants are on the march in northeastern Kenya.

With large numbers of troops in southern Somalia but seemingly unable to effectively police its own outer regions, Kenya must react quickly to stop the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists from gaining significant ground and finding a new generation of recruits, Western security officials say.

At least 35 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a week of clashes in villages near Somalia's border with Ethiopia, officials and traditional elders said Sunday.

The sources said the clashes involved Somali clan militia and members of the Liyu police, an Ethiopian paramilitary unit operating in Ethiopia's ethnic Somali region.

A Kenyan man pleaded guilty to supporting three different terrorist organizations Thursday, admitting to providing money and recruits in Syria and Somalia, the U.S. Justice Department said.  

The suspect, 27-year-old Mohamed Hussein Said, is accused of providing material support to "foreign terrorist organizations," according to a statement from the Justice Department. 

The aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday it had evacuated 42 of its staff from the Dadaab refugee camp for Somalis in northeastern Kenya, citing "deteriorating security conditions."

"The current security situation is severely limiting the ability of our medical staff to provide humanitarian aid to people who desperately need it," said  Charles Gaudry, MSF's head of mission in Kenya.