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The death toll in yesterday's grenade attack at a bus station in Nairobi has risen to seven. Security forces detained four suspected Shabaab fighters, including foreigners.
Four people were killed and 42 were wounded in a grenade attack at a bus station in Nairobi. A Shabaab fighter is said to have been arrested and confessed to carrying out the attack.
Kenya's hide-and-seek war with Al-Shabaab
Police detained more than 50 Somalis during a raid at the Hagarder refugee camp in northern Kenya after a bombing at a police station in the town. Police suspect the men of having links to Shabaab.
A soldier and a Shabaab fighter were both killed after the terror group attacked a military checkpoint near Mandera. The town hosts a large refugee camp for Somalis fleeing the fighting across the border.
Analysis: Somali reform rush may be militant lifeline
Moroccan jihadist killed in Somalia airstrike
Abu Ibrahim was one of three foreign jihadists killed in today's strike south of Mogadishu. The attack was likely carried out by the US.
Somali militants target addicts in UK's 'khat cafes'
Shabaab abandons western city as Ethiopian troops advance
Shabaab was in control of Baidoa for three years before abandoning the provincial capital today without a fight.No hurry to crush al Shabaab on Kenya's frontline
A Kenyan court postponed the trial of Jermaine Grant, a Briton charged with planning attacks in Kenya. He escaped detention in a Shabaab jailbreak in 2008, and was arrested along with his wife and two other men in Mombasa last year.
A police spokesman said that Shabaab is responsible for more than 30 murders in towns and villages along the Somali border. The police also said dozens of Kenyans have been recruited and trained to fight in Shabaab.
Somalia wants arms embargo lifted to fend off al Qaeda
The spokesman for the Kenya Defence Forces said that Shabaab's merger with al Qaeda shows the Somali group has been weakened. Colonel Cyrus Oguna also said the merger would induce the international community to fight Shabaab.
The Muslim Youth Center, Shabaab's affiliate in Kenya, said that it is "part of this new union under the banner of AQEA (al-Qaeda East Africa)." The statement was released one day after Shabaab officially joined al Qaeda.
'We in MYC are now part of al Qaeda East Africa'
The Muslim Youth Center, Shabaab's affiliate in Kenya, said that the groups would fight "under the banner of AQEA (al Qaeda East Africa)." AQEA has long reported to al Qaeda's most senior leadership.The Pumwani Riyadha Mosque in Nairobi is suing Chase Bank Limited for being "subjected to suspicion and accusations that they are traitors who sympathise, aid and abet the terrorist activities of Al Shabaab." The mosque said Chase provided the UN with documents that linked it to the Somali terror group.
UN Says Famine in Somalia Is Over, but Risks Remain
Red Cross banned from areas of Somalia under al-Shabaab control
Police arrested Aboud Rogo, a radical cleric for Shabaab, during a raid in Kikambala; weapons and explosives were found at his home. Police failed to arrest Natalie Webb, a British woman who is believed to be a Shabaab financier; she is thought to have left the country.
