Nairobi – Ethiopia has apologized for invading Kenya last month and taking over a police station, saying that the incident took place by mistake. Police said the incident at Illeret Police Station in North Horr Moyale, where, armed with AK47 rifles, the Ethiopians arrived in 10 vehicles, disembarked and took strategic positions around the police
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By Drazen Jorgic DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) – When Kenyan police arrested six men in the vast Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border last April, their ultimate aim was to dismantle a decades-old sugar smuggling trade that is funding Somali militants waging war on Kenya. The arrests, coming weeks after four al Shabaab gunmen massacred
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ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia has signed a $120 million-agreement with China Electric Power Equipment and Technology for the firm to construct a high-voltage transmission line connecting the country with Kenya, part of plans to boost regional power exports. Addis Ababa aims to become Africa’s top power exporter by tapping the numerous rivers that cascade
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By VINCENT ACHUKA Pope Francis has expressed his wish to visit Kenya in November during his maiden tour of Africa. The Pope, who on Friday evening held a two-hour meeting with participants attending the international retreat for priests at Rome’s Papal Basilica of St John Lateran, confirmed he would be visiting Uganda and the war-ravaged
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President Uhuru Kenyatta did not say his country would stop accepting foreign aid. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged fellow African leaders to stop receiving foreign aid, saying it is not an acceptable basis for prosperity. “Dependency on giving that only appears to be charitable must end,” he said in a tweet ahead of this
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President Uhuru Kenyatta did not say his country would stop accepting foreign aid. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged fellow African leaders to stop receiving foreign aid, saying it is not an acceptable basis for prosperity. “Dependency on giving that only appears to be charitable must end,” he said in a tweet ahead of this
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By Stefan Smith Nairobi (AFP) – From hit and run attacks and massacres to a shopping trip, Somali-led Shebab militants are on the march in northeastern Kenya. With large numbers of troops in southern Somalia but seemingly unable to effectively police its own outer regions, Kenya must react quickly to stop the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists from
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By Stefan Smith Nairobi (AFP) – From hit and run attacks and massacres to a shopping trip, Somali-led Shebab militants are on the march in northeastern Kenya. With large numbers of troops in southern Somalia but seemingly unable to effectively police its own outer regions, Kenya must react quickly to stop the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists from
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Demonstrater outside parliament. ‘Any Kenyan passing by does not automatically assume that this person is mad. For them, he is one citizen who is practising his right of dissent, picket and protest. Had it been in Ethiopia, this man could be writing his own death warrant.’ Sometime back in December last year,
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Several Kenyan police officers were killed in an attack Monday night by suspected Somali militants in the northeastern Garissa county, where 148 students were massacred last month, police said Tuesday. A police spokesman, George Kimoti, confirmed there was an attack in the Garissa region, and two security officials said many police
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