Kenya’s High Court has suspended some sections of the controversial new security law, which was enacted two weeks ago amid fierce opposition. The court blocked eight clauses until a legal challenge mounted by the opposition and rights groups is heard. MPs had exchanged blows while debating the law, which the opposition said would turn Kenya
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By Gabe Joselow, VOA Kenya has a security problem. Fighters from the militant group al-Shabab, driven from their strongholds across Somalia, have claimed responsibility for gruesome attacks targeting non-Muslims in northeastern Kenya: hijacking a bus full of passengers in one recent incident and attacking quarry workers as they slept in their tents in another. Both
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By TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI- At least 36 quarry workers were killed early Tuesday in northern Kenya by suspected Islamic extremists from Somalia, said Kenyan police. The killings happened in Mandera County near the border with Somalia and the attackers escaped, said Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo. The workers were ambushed at the quarry
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BBC The bus had been travelling from Mombasa to Lamu when it was attacked Gunmen have killed seven people, including four police officers, after attacking a passenger bus in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu. The gunmen opened fire on the bus near the town of Witu, some 50 km (31 miles) from the resort island
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By Ben Makori MPEKETONI Kenya (Reuters) – Somali-linked Islamist militants killed at least eight people in a second night of attacks on Kenya’s coast, a day after an assault on nearby Mpeketoni town left almost 50 dead, officials and the fighters said on Tuesday. Armed men set fire to houses as they raided the village
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BBC Footage from the scene shows the aftermath of the attack which happened as people were watching the World Cup, as Dennis Okari reports At least 48 people have died after unidentified gunmen attacked hotels and a police station in a Kenyan coastal town, officials say. Witnesses in Mpeketoni said gun battles lasted for several
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By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO, AP MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Making a rare threat against the United States, a senior member of Somalia’s Islamic insurgent group that has carried out terrorist attacks abroad said Thursday that holy war will come to America and that Islam’s flag will one day fly over Washington. The al-Shabab
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The scene of a twin explosion at the Gikomba open-air market in Nairobi on Friday.THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS By ALAN COWELL The New York Times LONDON — The authorities in Kenya said that 10 people had died in two explosions in the capital, Nairobi, on Friday, heightening fears of terrorist attacks in one of Africa’s
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The scene of a twin explosion at the Gikomba open-air market in Nairobi on Friday.THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS By ALAN COWELL The New York Times LONDON — The authorities in Kenya said that 10 people had died in two explosions in the capital, Nairobi, on Friday, heightening fears of terrorist attacks in one of Africa’s
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07 April 2014 BBC The security operation was launched after explosions in a mainly Somali neighbourhood The UN refugee agency has expressed concern over the mass arrest of Somalis and other nationals in Kenya as part of a security force…
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