Kenyan police kill suspected militant in raid, seize arms

The al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia who once controlled the southern port city of Kismayo are gone, but now a fight for control of the city has broken out. At the heart of the divide is Kenya's desire for a friendly buffer zone near its border with ...

NAIROBI, June 18 (NNN-KBC) -- The Kenyan government has called on Asian countries to support its efforts of repatriate the hundreds of thousands of Somalia refugees now in refugee camps in Kenya, ahead of an international conference on the subject ...

Kenya: Kenya will host a major international conference in August to discuss on modalities of repatriating more than one million Somali refugees to their country. The conference, which will be held in the second week of August, will be co-hosted ...

Kenya and Somalia have established a joint task force to establish means for repatriation and resettlement of Somali refugees in Kenya, Kenya's Daily Nation reported Wednesday (June 5th). The task force, formed following a meeting in Nairobi ...

A Kenyan terror suspect charged alongside British national Jermaine Grant and two others in Mombasa has escaped and joined the al Shabaab terror group in Somalia. Fuad Abubakar Manswab, who hails from Majengo area in Mombasa, is among key al ...

Mandera (Agencies): Six people, including two schoolchildren, have been killed in an ambush near Kenya's border with Somalia, Kenyan police have said. Unknown gunmen opened fire on the truck in which they were travelling in the north-eastern Mandera ...

Kenyan police have previously blamed similar grenade attacks on supporters or members of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab insurgents/XINHUA-File NAIROBI, Jun 9 At least 10 people were wounded in two separate attacks in Kenya, police said on ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 12 (UPI) -- Deputy Director of African research Leslie Lefkow said the commission could play a valuable role in Somali efforts to erase a long record of human rights abuses. "But a weak law will cripple the commission from ...

North eastern Kenya residents curse their proximity to Jubaland, a newly-created state in southern Somalia. Jubaland's eastern border lies 4060 kilometres east of the Jubba River, stretching from Gedo to the Indian Ocean, while its western side ...