Kenya's military on Tuesday reported multiple skirmishes with Somali militant group al-Shabaab, saying more than 40 insurgents and 11 Somali government forces were killed, according to dpa.
There was no independent confirmation of the (...)
Somali pirates released the Singapore-flagged
cargo vessel MT Gemini after receiving a ransom, but are continuing
to hold four South Korean crew members, dpa quoted a Kenyan piracy expert as saying
Thursday.
"The ransom has been paid, but (...)
AlHijjah 28, 1432, Nov 24, 2011, SPA -- A blast struck a Kenyan military truck in Mandera on Thursday, police said, the latest in a spate of attacks on Kenyan security forces along the border with Somalia since the east African country sent troops (...)
AlHijjah 23, 1432, Nov 19, 2011, SPA -- A Kenyan military spokesman said that eight Kenyan serviceman have been killed since Kenya sent troops into Somalia a month ago, AP reported.
Col. Cyrus Oguna said that three were killed by Somali gunmen (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA -- The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday there has been an outbreak of cholera in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, which is believed to have started among new arrivals who had most likely (...)
AlHijjah 6, 1432, Nov 2, 2011, SPA -- Kenyan military aircraft will target and destroy weapons that were flown into Somalia on two planes and delivered to Islamist militants, AP quoted a military official as saying on Wednesday.
A U.N. arms (...)
The U.N. is reporting some positive developments in the fight against Somalia's famine.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Wednesday that food assistance is estimated to have reached about 1.85 million Somalis, nearly (...)
Kenya's currency is in a free fall against the dollar, dropping 30 percent this year to an all-time low. That has increased prices of food and fuel across the country and has pushed more Kenyans closer to poverty, AP reported.
Flour, sugar, the (...)
A local official says at least 61 bodies have been recovered after an explosion of a gasoline pipeline running through a slum in Kenya's capital.
Provincial Commissioner Njoroge Ndirangu says he believes the death toll from Monday's blast will (...)
Armed men killed a British man and kidnapped his wife from a beach resort in northern Kenya near the border with lawless Somalia, AP cited officials in the East African nation as saying Sunday.
Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said Sunday that the (...)
Armed men killed a British man and kidnapped his wife from a beach resort in northern Kenya near the border with lawless Somalia, officials in the East African nation said Sunday, according to AP.
Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said Sunday that (...)
An EU naval patrol on Saturday rescued one of four missing crew members from a French yacht after intercepting a pirate skiff, the European Union naval force (EU NAVFOR) said, according to Reuters.
The French yacht was found unoccupied off the (...)
Food will be increasingly scarce in famine-struck southern Somalia until next year's harvest, Reuters quoted the head of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) as saying on Thursday.
"We have not yet reached the peak of the crisis," UNHCR chief (...)
A police official said that 23 passengers were killed after their minibus lost control, hit the barrier of a bridge and rolled over rocks in central Kenya, according to AP.
National police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said Sunday the driver of the (...)
The World Food Program is sending 800 metric tons of high energy biscuits to East Africa to help fight the famine in Somalia, according to AP.
The U.N. food agency said Tuesday that the series of nine airlifts will be enough to feed 1.6 million (...)
Parts of southern Somalia are suffering from famine, a U.N. official said Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Somalis have probably already died in the worst hunger emergency in a generation, AP reported.
The Horn of Africa is suffering a (...)
A British official says European countries are not doing enough to help some 10 million people who need aid because of a devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, AP reported.
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell urged other nations (...)
A plane carrying 112 passengers crashed Friday at Kisangani airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with officials saying "dozens" of people were killed and injured according to dpa.
At least 40 people are thought to have been pulled alive (...)
The U.N. Security Council is warning Somali leaders that they risk losing financial support if they can't agree on when and how to hold elections, as AP reported.
Somalia's government depends on the international community for almost everything, (...)
Budget shortages have forced the World Food Program to cut rations for those receiving food aid in Somalia, UPI quoted the organization as saying.
The food shortage is exacerbated by a drought that began last year, leaving many Somalis short of (...)
Awwal 05, 1432, April 09, 2011, SPA -- Up to 20 people were feared dead after an explosion rocked a central Nigerian election office late Friday just hours before voting in parliamentary elections was set to begin.
The explosion in Suleja, 20 (...)
Akhir 25, 1432 H/March 30, 2011, SPA -- A group of researchers said Wednesday they have found that a virus causing deadly respiratory diseases in humans can be passed on to mountain gorillas in Central Africa, according to AP.
Researchers who spent (...)
Akhir 12, 1432 / March 17, 2011, SPA -- A Nigerian militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an Agip facility in the oil-producing Niger Delta, calling it the start of a new concerted campaign of sabotage targeting the oil industry, (...)
Akhir 05 , 1432 H. / March 10, 2011 -- The U.S. government said Thursday it does not support Kenya's bid to get the U.N. Security Council to defer the cases of six suspects facing charges of crimes against humanity at an international court, AP (...)
Awwal 29, 1432 H/March 4, 2011, SPA -- A bomb has killed up to 13 people at an election rally in central Nigeria, news reports said Friday.
According to dpa, the bomb was thrown into a crowd of supporters of the ruling People's Democratic Party in (...)
