Nairobi - Kenya and Tanzania were Thursday set to commemorate the 10th anniversary of deadly coordinated bomb attacks on United States embassies in their respective capital cities that killed over 200 and injured thousands.

In the Kenyan capital Nairobi, ceremonies were set to take place at the US embassy and at the site of the former embassy, now a downtown park, where 213 people - largely Kenyans - died.

Over 4,000 people were injured in the bomb attack.

A ceremony will be held in a memorial park in Dar es Salaam, where 11 where killed and 70 injured in the 1998 attack.

Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has announced that the country’s

Nairobi/Dar es Salam  - Authorities on the Tanzanian island of Pemba have arrest 12 elders who are advocating independence for the island, it was reported Tuesday.

Dar es Salaam/Nairobi  -