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Lessons from Kenya (Part 1)
RARE is a country that seamlessly blends modern and vibrant cities with unspoilt white sandy beaches against the backdrop of the planet's biggest natural wildlife park, the Masai Mara (Serengeti). End...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Miriam T Majome
Islamic State terrorists make inroads into Kenya
Nairobi - Recent arrests show the Islamic State's growing presence in East Africa, where they are recruiting young Kenyans for jihad abroad and raising fears some of them will return to threaten the c...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 08:40hrs | | by AFP
Kenyan plan to close world's largest refugee camp
Last night on The Stream on Al Jazeera, author Ben Rawlence:• Dismissed the terrorism threat posed by Dadaab• Claimed "Refugees are being used as a bargaining chip here"• Claimed Ken...Published: 26 May 2016 at 15:48hrs | | by Al Jazeera
Zimbabwe on high terror alert
Zimbabwe is on high terror attack alert following a spate of terrorist attacks in Mali and France in the past few weeks, the Minister of State Security, Kembo Mohadi, said yesterday. In an exclusive i...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC condemns France terror attacks
16 November 2015 - The MDC condemns in strongest terms the terrorist attacks carried out by an Islamic fundamentalist group in Paris, France over the weekend, where about 129 innocent civilians were k...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 08:02hrs | | by Kurauone Chihwayi - Kurauone Chihwayi
Africa's economic failures, source of xenophobia in SA
THERE has arisen an extensive discourse, and partly, literature, which speaks of the "end", the "decline", the "crisis", the "decay" or at worst the "death" and, if anything, the "dearth" of African c...Published: 01 May 2015 at 19:06hrs | | by Dr Brilliant Mhlanga
Of the grand utopia, deliberate vagueness and the misinterpreted narrative of brutality
There has arisen an extensive discourse, and partly, literature, which speaks of the 'end', the 'decline', the 'crisis', the 'decay' or at worst the 'death' and, if anything, the 'dearth' of Afri...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 23:03hrs | | by Dr Brilliant Mhlanga
YWPF's statement on the 150 students murdered at Kenyan University
Today we stand as the Young Women in Politics Forum, saddened and disheartened by the killings perpetrated by a demonic sect namely Al shabaab on innocent students at Garissa University. ...Published: 12 Apr 2015 at 08:06hrs | | by Nomusa Sokhela Secretary General of YWPF
Mugabe condemns Garissa attack
President Robert Mugabe and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma have sent their condolences to the families of the almost 150 Kenyan students who lost their lives in the Garissa University Colleg...Published: 09 Apr 2015 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kenya destroys two al-Shabaab camps
The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Serious threat, 'Kenya's cities will run red with blood'
Mogadishu - Somali militants on Saturday threatened to stage more bloody attacks on Kenya after the group's fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university on Thursday....Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 13:29hrs | | by Reuters
How TB Joshua predicted Kenya terror attack
As the world joins the nation of Kenya to mourn the nearly 150 victims of a brutal massacre by Al-Shabaab terrorists at Garissa University College, a YouTube video has sensationally claimed that Niger...Published: 03 Apr 2015 at 16:30hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Death toll in Kenya attack rises to 147, siege over
Nairobi - The death toll in the attack by Somali Islamists on a university in northeastern Kenya on Thursday has risen to 147 and the siege has ended, the country's disaster response agency said....Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 20:09hrs | | by Reuters
More than 70 dead in Kenya university attack
Nairobi - Kenya's interior ministry says that more than 70 people were killed after Al-Shabaab militants stormed Garissa university on Thursday.They also said that at least 79 people were ...Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 18:24hrs | | by AP
Al-Shabaab beheading students in Kenya
Garrisa - There have been several beheadings in the terrorist attack on the Garissa University College in Kenya, survivors of the attack told ...Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 16:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Al Jazeera Film investigates massacres against Kenyan-Somalis
A forthcoming Al Jazeera documentary takes an in-depth look at the grievances that Kenyan-Somalis have toward the Kenyan government and how Al Qaeda-affiliated group Al Shabaab is taking advantage of ...Published: 13 Nov 2013 at 04:49hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Kenyan election: Uhuru Kenyatta takes early lead as results begin to come in
Uhuru Kenyatta had an early edge as Kenya continued the count on Tuesday in a presidential election that brought out millions of voters despite pockets of violence that killed at least 15 people....Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 22:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Three Ugandan military helicopters crash in Kenyan airspace
Nairobi - Three Ugandan military helicopters crashed in Kenyan airspace at the weekend on their way to Somalia and bad weather was hampering search and rescue efforts, a Kenyan defence spokesper...Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kenyan soldier killed by an improvised explosive device near Somalia border
A Kenyan soldier was killed after an improvised bomb struck a military truck near the Somali border on Thursday, the army said, the latest in a spate of attacks near the frontier since Kenya sent troo...Published: 25 Nov 2011 at 09:36hrs | | by Matthews Estell
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