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Alert as Ethiopian forces enter Kenya
By ZADOCK ANGIRA Police said the incident came just a week after surveyors had completed demarcating the Kenya-Ethiopia border. This is the third time Ethiopian forces have crossed the border into Kenya this year. Kenyan security agencies have been put on high alert after about 50 heavily-armed Ethiopian soldiers and police officers crossed the border
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It’s Eprdf! State now breaks silence over aborted Uhuru trip
Kenya has sent a protest note to Ethiopia after the aborted presidential trip to the United States last month. It was revealed Sunday that the President’s jet turned back after Ethiopian authorities advised the pilot to change the flight course in a bid to avoid the Yemen airspace. It also emerged that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s
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Eritrea denies blocking Uhuru plane, blames Ethiopia for aborted US trip
BY EUGENE OKUMU President Uhuru Kenyatta with Deputy President William Ruto at JKIA shortly before he left for the 2015 Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles, USA. Uhuru cancelled the trip after the plane was allegedly turned back over increasing airstrikes in Yemen. Photo/PSCU The request to fly through the airspace was granted within 20
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Kenya tells UN to close Dadaab camp
The Dadaab camp is surrounded by desert in the north east of Kenya Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has called on the United Nations to close the Dadaab refugee camp and relocate more than 500,000 Somalis. Dadaab, near the border with Somalia, is the largest refugee camp in Africa. On 2 April, Somali militants from
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Kenya can’t, won’t be Ethiopia
By Mwaura Samora NAIROBI: The recent attack on Garissa University College, where more than 150 lives were cut short by Al-Shabaab bullets, has evoked anger among Kenyans. This and other bloody attacks in Mandera, Lamu and Nairobi have triggered numerous debates, drawing parallels between Kenya and Ethiopia in the war against terrorism. Despite Ethiopia
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Setbacks Press Somalia’s Shabab Fighters to Kill Inexpensively in Kenya (NY Times)
By JEFFREY GETTLEMA NAIROBI, Kenya — They have lost their leader, their ports, their checkpoints and their territory. They have lost thousands of men and much of their money. They have no fleet of armored personnel carriers like Boko Haram’s. Or poppy fields like the Taliban’s. Or oil fields like the Islamic State’s. In the
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Kenya bombs Somalia al-Shabab bases
Al-Shabab says it is at war with Kenya Kenyan fighter jets have bombed positions of militant Islamist group al-Shabab in neighbouring Somalia, a military spokesman has told the BBC. The warplanes had targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by al-Shabab to cross into Kenya, the spokesman added. This is Kenya’s first response to
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15 Killed 65 Wounded by Al Shabaab in Kenya
Kenyan police on campus in Garissa The BBC’s Bashkash Jugsooda’ay in Garissa described hearing gunfire Gunmen from the militant Islamist group al-Shabab have killed at least 15 people and taken students hostage at a university in north-eastern Kenya. Reports say 65 others were wounded when gunmen stormed a university in Garissa. Troops are engaging the
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Obama plans first presidential trip to Kenya, father’s homeland
By Andrew Beatty Washington (AFP) – Barack Obama will make a long-awaited return to Kenya this July, visiting his father’s homeland for the first time since becoming US president, the White House announced Monday. During the much-delayed visit, Obama will attend a summit to encourage entrepreneurship and meet the country’s controversial leader Uhuru Kenyatta.
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