Al Shabaab militants killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya Reuters cited officials as saying.
Many died in their sleep, the Kenya Red Cross said. The raid, in the town of Mandera, (...)
Kenyan soldiers shot dead six suspected members of a separatist group who hacked an officer to death in an attack on barracks in the port city of Mombasa, police and military officials said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
The gang of between 15 and (...)
Gunmen killed at least three people when they ambushed a bus along Kenya's northern coast on Friday, Reuters cited a local official as saying.
The attacks near Lamu, an ancient trading port and tourist resort.
Daniel Kahosho, head of Kenya Police (...)
Gunmen killed at least 29 people in two separate attacks in coastal Kenya overnight, the interior ministry said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
"There were two attacks in Lamu and Tana River last night. In Lamu we have nine people dead and in Tana (...)
Officials at Kenya's Mombasa port said they have seized a consignment of illegal ivory disguised as peanuts for export to Malaysia.
Paul Mbugua, a spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, said Tuesday that the ivory was seized on Monday, the second (...)
As many as 15 British tourists were injured when a bus they were traveling in crashed in Kenya's port city of Mombasa early Saturday, UPI quoted officials as saying.
The driver of the bus lost control of the vehicle and it rolled off the road, down (...)
AlQa'dah 2, 1433, Sep 18, 2012, SPA - Two mass graves were found in Kenya's coastal Tana River region, police said on Tuesday, a week after at least 38 people were shot, hacked and burnt to death as two tribes fought over land and water.
The graves (...)
A loud explosion followed by gunfire was heard in Kenya's port of Mombasa on Wednesday evening, but it was not clear whether there were any casualties, Reuters quoted witnesses as saying.
Kenya's second-biggest city has been gripped by violence (...)
Kenyan police arrested a
Dutch tourist on Tuesday who tried to take his own life after
the decomposing body of his girlfriend was found in their house, according to Reuters.
Mombasa police chief Tom Odero said the man stabbed himself in the chest (...)
A German freighter released by
Somali pirates after nearly four months arrived Saturday in
the Kenya port of Mombasa with the 24-member crew
«exhausted» but in good condition, AP reported.
The 20,000-ton Hansa Stavanger was released earlier (...)
Somali pirates fired grenades and automatic weapons at an American freighter loaded with food aid but the ship managed to escape the attack and was heading Wednesday to Kenya under US Navy escort, officials said.
Despite President Barack Obama's (...)
A cargo ship loaded with
humanitarian aid was headed to Kenya under U.S. Navy escort
Wednesday after evading pirates firing grenades and
automatic weapons, the second unsuccessful hijacking
attempt of an American freighter in a week, officials (...)
Undeterred Somali pirates went on a hijacking spree, brazenly capturing four more ships and taking over 60 crew members hostage in the Gulf of Aden, the waterway at the center of the world's fight against piracy.
Pirates have vowed to retaliate for (...)
U.S. warships and helicopters
stalked a lifeboat holding an American sea captain and his
four Somali captors Sunday as Somalis reported negotiations
for his release have collapsed and his crew briefed FBI
agents about how they fought off the (...)
A Ukrainian ship
laden with tanks and other heavy weapons docked in Kenya
today more than four months after it was hijacked by
Somali pirates, AP reported.
Its 20 tired and sunburned sailors smiled and shook hands
with Ukrainian officials and (...)
Twelve people have died
and more than 60,000 have been forced from their homes after
heavy rains in Kenya caused massive flooding, government
officials and aid workers said on Monday, according to Reuters.
Ten people died in the southeastern (...)
The United States
government on Friday gave the Kenyan Navy six boats to patrol
its coastline and help combat "insecurity and terrorism", according to Reuters.
"This is timely in view of the heightened concerns by Kenya
about the potential (...)
A South Korean trawler
held captive by Somali militiamen for more than three months
docked in Kenya on Saturday, a week after gunmen freed its
25-member crew, Reuters reported.
The trawler's crew waved
as they disembarked at Kenya's Mombasa (...)
