7 month agoDespite an "unprecedented" campaign, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization warns that extensive breeding has given rise to a new generation of locusts in the Horn of Africa
Local leaders in Guticha village in Ramu area of Mandera North are urging Kenya authorities to investigate and respond to the killing of Rashid Noor "Food-Adde", the head of Kenya Police Reserve in the village who was killed by suspected Al-Shabaab fighters this week - reports
Abdullah, 30, was allegedly working at the direction of a senior Al-Shabaab commander who was responsible for planning the 2019 DusitD2 Nairobi hotel attack. He traveled to Philippines in 2016 and enrolled in a flight school there, per indictment. He faces up to life in prison
US charges Kenya national Cholo Abdi Abdullah of conspiring to hijack an aircraft on behalf of Al-Shabaab to carry out 9/11-style attack in the US. Abdullah was arrested in the Philippines in July 2019, was transferred to the US on Dec 15, 2020
7 month agoA military tribunal in Mogadishu sentences two Al-Shabaab men, Omar Aden Mohamed and Abdulle Ahmed Mudey, to death for assassinating Abdullahi Mohamed Hilowle, a security agent, and Ali Abdulle Mohamed who was a soldier @AbdulkadirIsE
7 month agoVoting temporarily disrupted at Jomo Kenyatta polling station in Msambweni Constituency where police officers arrested former Machakos Senator Johnson Muthama.
Somalia severed diplomatic ties with Kenya, accusing the country of numerous internal interference and violations of sovereignty
Newly built police offices destroyed in Mandera attack
Somalia-Kenya: Somalia cuts diplomatic ties with Kenya "Somalia's Minister of Information, Osman Abukar Dubbe, announced cutting ties with Kenya at around 1:40 am Mogadishu time on state-run @sntvnews1."
7 month agoSomalia: Bomb hidden in garbage exploded outside a local government building in southern Galkayo on Sunday, injuring at least four people, including two soldiers
7 month agoAl-Shabaab identify the 5 attackers behind DusitD2 attack, Nairobi, Jan 15, 2019 that killed 21 people. Left to right: Ali Salim Gichunge Abu Sakeena, Osman Ahmed Hassan Azzam, Mahir Khalid Riziki Jibril/Simba, Muhammad Adan Nur Farhan Yare and Abdulqani Arab Yusuf Farhan Dheere
Al-Shabaab seize Milho village in Sanaag region, Puntland, on Friday, abduct seven gold miners - local official
Family of Deceased Machakos Senator Boniface Mutinda Deny He Succumbed To Covid-19
7 month agoSomalia: The African command of the US armed forces reported an airstrike against an explosives production facility of the terrorist group Al-Shabab in the region of Jilib, Somalia. The strike reportedly killed eight militants and injured two others
7 month agoThe US military has released video of yesterday's two airstrikes targeting Al-Shabaab explosive experts in Jilib town area. The US military told VOA's @CarlaBabbVOA that 8 militants were killed in the strikes
7 month agoU.S. military says 8 al-Qaeda linked Shabab 'explosives experts' killed, 2 wounded in drone strike in Somalia Thursday
7 month agoPro-Al-Shabaab media say group executed a 70-yr-old man accused of practicing "sorcery". The man, Isak Hassan Daud was executed in the town of Tiyeglow on Dec 10, per reports. Al-Shabaab courts don't allow Defense lawyers and evidence against defendants is not released publicly
Nurse Who Helped Police Enforce Covid-19 Rules In Kakamega Town Dies Of Virus
US Kills 8 al-Shabab Fighters in 2 Airstrikes Amid Troop Reduction in Somalia
Senior Al-Shabaab leader captured in southern Somalia
7 month agoTwo men, Omar Aden Mohamed Abdulle Ahmed Mudey, appeared before a military tribunal in Mogadishu charged with Al-Shabaab membership and murder. Their lawyer denies the charges against them and asks for psychiatric evaluation of the defendants.
Armed confrontation b/w two regional forces in Wanlawayn town leaves at least 4 dead, reports. Reports say members of traffic police and regular police clashed over a checkpoint erected in Wanlawayn, Lower Shabelle. No reaction yet from Southwest Admin
7 month agoPhase two of Desert Locust invasion in Taita Taveta is threatening crops destruction in most of the farms
7 month agoThe Bungoma Referral Hospital has been shut down as the health crisis in public hospitals deepens. Bomet's refferal hospital has also been vacated by patients for lack of services, following the health workers' strike which enters day four today
Somalia: At least five military personnel were killed in an ambush by gunmen near the town of Guri-El in Galmudug administration late Wednesday, reports. The attack happened as the personnel were returning from officer training workshop in Gur-El, some 450km north of Mogadishu
7 month agoTwo killed, three badly injured in head-on collision on the Sagana-Karatina road near Kibirigwi, police say
7 month agoThe pandemic burden: Kakamega nurse collapses, dies of suspected covid-19
7 month agoMoyale Border Tensions: Nine Kenyans arrested by Ethiopian security forces
Kenya president, Ethiopia PM inaugurate transportation corridor connecting the two countries
Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed embarks on a two-day visit to neighbouring Kenya, his first foreign trip since the start of Tigray crisis
