Kenya

By Anthony Langat DADAAB REFUGEE COMPLEX, Kenya — Mohamed Omar Abdille remembers the night before he left his home in Merca, Somalia, in September 2012 to begin life as a refugee. He was 15. Family and friends gathered around the table for a final meal before...

By OLIVER MATHENGE The Kenyan soldiers fighting al Shabaab in Somalia have received their pay and allowances, the Presidency announced yesterday. State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu said an agreement was signed between Amisom and the European Union, under which payments were made to soldiers serving in...

By Joackim Bwana The three girls linked to the Mombasa Central Police Station failed terror raid have been charged for withholding crucial information that would have alerted the police of the September 11 attack. These three are alleged to have been former classmates of Ramla Abdulrahman...

Five decades ago, the famous theoretician Frantz Fanon, while commenting on the political upheavals in post-colonial Africa, likened the continent to a revolver. In Fanon’s analogy, the Congo was a trigger. In this configuration, the Horn of Africa is the revolving cylinder or chamber. As...

By ELKANA JACOB @elkana_jacob A bullet was recovered from one of the female terror suspects gunned down in Mombasa's Central police station, in an autopsy led by government pathologist Johansen Oduor at Coast General hospital. According to Oduor, the exercise was minimal as was agreed with...

By CALVIN OSARIGO @kalvohonsa Haniya Said Sagar, the widow of slain muslim cleric Aboud Rogo, on Friday was charged with withholding information that could have prevented the attack at the Mombasa Central Police Station on September 11. According to the charges, Sagar (pictured) had information prior...

Kenya has called at the United Nations General Assembly for more funding for its plan to repatriate more than 300,000 Somali refugees living in a vast camp on its border, citing world leaders' commitment to burden-sharing. In May, Kenya announced its plans to close the...

BY PAUL ILADO Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday asked the US to stop issuing travel advisories against parts of Kenya and other East African countries. The DP said the travel advisories have hurt tourism yet terror attacks in Kenya are similar to those Europe and...

This week, the International Court of Justice will hear a border dispute case pitting the neighboring – and generally neighborly – states of Somalia and Kenya against each other over waters hiding massive oil and gas reserves in the Indian Ocean. Fossil fuel deposits off...

By Paul Wafula NAIROBI: Kenyan embassy staff in the US lost 2,000 visa stickers in one year that could have been sold in the black market in the latest scandal to rock Kenyan missions abroad. In his latest audit report on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...