Kenya

By BRUHAN MAKONG The Wajir County government has urged the national government to release money from the contingency fund to help drought-hit counties. Wajir Governor Ahmed Abdullahi said the money is meant to deal with drought emergencies in affected counties. “I want to appeal to the national...

Horndiplomat-One of the Kenya TV reports a story of a fourth generation Isahakia community in Naivasha ( Kenya ). The community, which is the first people to arrive in Naivasha in the early 1700s and the first Somali community in Kenya they From Somaliland....

In this week's UpFront, we ask Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed about her country's progress in the war against al-Shabab. We also discuss her government's successes and Kenya's experience with the International Criminal Court. In the Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan looks into the French concept...

Kenya said on Tuesday that it has enhanced security along its Somali border to thwart terror attacks from Al-Shabaab militants from Somalia. Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia told journalists that security agents have learned lessons following last week's terror attack where six people were killed...

By Anna Dubuis Anti-terror police in Kenya have raided the home of a British PR executive who works on counter-terrorism projects, accusing him of recruiting for extremist group al-Shabaab. Tom James, 32, was led away by police for questioning after Kenyan officers swooped on his home...

  The return of Somali refugees is 'no longer voluntary, dignified nor safe,' an aid agency has said. Kenya wants to close down the Dadaab refugee camp, home to over 280,000 refugees, by November. Kenya is violating international law by removing residents of the world's largest...

Leaders from Marsabit and Mandera counties have urged communities living along the Kenya-Ethiopia border to co-exist peacefully. Speaking during a fundraiser in aid of Tolki Special Interest Group in Moyale on Sunday, the leaders were happy that clashes witnessed in the two border counties in...

Elders from the larger Aulian clan on Kenya-Somalia border have come together to resolve fight that broke out between former Deputy Speaker Farah Maalim and former Somali Minister Gele Jama in Nairobi. Speaking in Garissa, Aulian clan elders led by their chairman Sultan Hamud Sheikh...

  Kenya is violating international law by forcing residents of the world's largest refugee camp to return to Somalia, an aid agency said Monday. Kenya insists the emptying of Dadaab -- home to hundreds of thousands of mostly Somali refugees -- is being carried out in...

Reports that suggest ethnic Somalis living in Kenya are being increasingly targeted, detained, and tortured are entirely false, the country's foreign minister says. In an interview with Al Jazeera's UpFront ahead of Kenya's presidential elections in 2017, Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed also addressed the repatriation...