Kenyan Court Sentences Men For Aiding Al-shabab MiFriday, June 20, 2025
A court in Kenya on Thursday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for facilitating the 2019 attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex that left 21 people dead. The court heard that Hussein Mohamed Abdille Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali, both Kenyans, sent money and helped acquire fake identification ...
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Kenya’s courts are corruption hotspots – radical actions the chief justice mustMonday, April 14, 2025
Kenya rsquo;s chief justice, Martha Koome, announced a change of strategy in March 2025 to fight corruption in the judiciary. The country rsquo;s courts are some of the hotspots of corrupt practices, from bribery of judges to obstruction of justice. The judiciary will now partner with the nationa ... |
Somalia Returns Rifles Seized From Slain Kenyan Police OfficerMonday, March 17, 2025
Authorities in Somalia have returned two rifles that were taken from a Kenyan police officer who was killed in an attack at a security post near the Kenya-Somalia border in Mandera County. The weapons mdash;a G3 and an AK47 rifle mdash;were handed over to the Mandera security team on Saturday mor ... |
Kenya Relies On USAid Famine Warning System – What Happens Now That It’s Gone?Sunday, March 16, 2025
Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net), a web-based platform for predicting famine, went offline on 30 January 2025. The system had provided up-to-date data to predict and track food insecurity in nearly 30 countries in Africa, central America and Asia for 40 years. It was funded by t ... |
Why Kenyans Celebrate Pain Of Their Fellow CountrymenFriday, February 28, 2025
Prevailing evidence on the social and conventional media showing a section of some Kenyans Jubilating overtly over the death of the former IEBC chairperson, Wafula Chebukati and others celebrating Kenya rsquo;s loss at the recently concluded African Union election in Addis Ababa makes me to remember ... |
U.S., Somali Troops Train In Kenya To Strengthen Counterterrorism EffortsFriday, February 21, 2025
U.S. Army paratroopers and Somali Danab special forces are participating in Justified Accord 2025 (JA25), a multinational military exercise in Kenya focused on counterterrorism training and regional security cooperation. The exercise, led by the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SET ... |
Kenya to send Somali elders to negotiate release of abducted elders near borderWednesday, February 5, 2025
Kenyan government is preparing to send Somali elders to negotiate the release of five local chiefs abducted on Monday near the Kenya-Somalia border in Mandera County. Authorities believe that sending elders to engage in negotiations is the most effective way to secure the safe return of the abduc ... |
Al-Shabaab Gunmen Abduct 5 Officials In Kenya's Border RegionTuesday, February 4, 2025
Five government officials were kidnapped by gunmen from the Al-Shabaab terror group on Monday morning in Kenya 39;s Mandera County, near the porous border with Somalia, police confirmed. Mandera South police commander Julius Njeru told reporters that the five regional administrators or chiefs we ... |
Foot-prints In The Sands Of Ogot’s Time Was Tainted With Deliberate FalsificatioSaturday, February 1, 2025
I admire the late Professor Bethwell Allan Ogot for two things, but also, I don rsquo;t admire him for very many things. The good professor died on Thursday, 30th January 2025, at Kisumu Kenya. I commiserate with the family, friends and the community of scholars in Kenya, East Africa and around the ... |
Jubaland President Ahmed Madobe departs for Kenya to meet with international parSunday, January 19, 2025
Jubaland President Ahmed Mohamed Islam Madobe departed for Kenya on Saturday morning aboard a private plane, marking his first trip since his re-election as president of Jubaland mdash;a result the Somali federal government has refused to recognize. According to reports, Madobe is expected to mee ... |