Around 400 Kenyan soldiers have arrived at the border town of Liboi to prepare for a push toward a key Somali town, reports say.

A SUICIDE bomber and gunmen wearing military uniforms attacked a hotel near Somalia’s presidential palace yesterday, sparking a one-hour gun battle with security forces.

A suicide bomber and gunmen killed more than 30 people, including six MPs, in an attack on a hotel near Somalia’s presidential palace today.