Shabaab gunmen killed 28 non-Muslims, including nine women, after ambushing a bus in Mandera near the border with Somalia. Shabaab claimed the attack, saying it was retaliation for government raids in Mombasa earlier this week. The Australian Navy intercepted a shipment of $155 million-worth of heroin off the East African coast on Nov. 17; Australian […]
Kenyan police announced the arrest of 10 suspected Shabaab operatives at the Somali border on Nov. 12. Two of the suspects are women who authorities claim intended to conduct suicide attacks.
Kenyan Muslim cleric Salim Bakari Mwarangi shot dead in Mombasa
Suspected Somali Islamists abduct Kenyan traders
Kenya to stay course in quest to stabilize Somalia: President Kenyatta
A top Kenyan antiterrorism police official said two German men suspected of membership in Shabaab were being held after arriving in Nairobi from Somalia on Aug. 29. Members of the Mombasa Republican Committee rejected allegations by the chief of police that the group is linked to Shabaab.
President Kenyatta urged police chiefs from 13 African countries to share intelligence on terrorism, and to crack down on the illicit trade in wildlife products that helps to fund terrorism. The Special Police unit shot and killed three “thugs” in Nairobi’s Gigiri neighborhood, a short distance from the US Embassy and UN complex, after trailing […]
Security is being stepped up in Lamu county after 20 heavily armed attackers blocked a road, forced riders out of their cars, and killed at least two of them. The suspected Shabaab attackers beheaded at least one of the victims and kidnapped others, and stole two cars.
A leaked national intelligence report said that three Kenyans — Sheikh Ahmed Iman Ali, Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, and Abu Sandheere — are suspected of masterminding Shabaab’s September 2013 Westgate Mall attack. A think tank report warned that terrorism presents a threat to economic growth in at least eight of Kenya’s counties.
Kenya police say trail gone cold in ‘white widow’ hunt
Police announced the recent arrest in Nairobi’s Eastleigh suburb of suspected Shabaab operative Hassan Hanafi Haji, who is accused of killing Somali journalists as well as other attacks. The suspect, who claimed he was not Haji, had come from Somalia to Kenya for medical treament. A large group of attackers threw grenades at government offices […]
Suspected Shabaab gunmen in in the Mombasa suburb of Likoni opened fire on civilians, killing at least four people and injuring more than 10 others. Leaflets distributed by the gunmen claimed the attack was revenge “for our brothers who were killed in Mpeketoni.” Security forces claimed to have destroyed three militant training camps and to […]
Suspected Shabaab militants ambushed a bus near Witu in Lamu county, killing at least five people, including a policeman, and wounding eight passengers, of whom four were policemen. The bus was traveling from a resort town.
Kenyans fleeing to prison for safety in Lamu
Residents and businesses are suffering from insecurity due to Shabaab attacks in the coastal province of Lamu; leaflets are circulating warning non-Muslims to leave. Foreign Secretary Mohammed said Kenya’s travel advisory warning Kenyans about the UK’s Heathrow airport due to the danger of al Qaeda terror attacks was not retaliatory; the UK had recently warned […]
Kenyan forces, including aircraft, searched the forests of Gorji and Belasange in Lamu county, looking for suspected Shabaab fighters who have attacked and raided villages and farms in the area. During a raid in the forests of Kilifi county, seven members of the secessionist MRC were arrested, and guns and weapons were confiscated; some 1,000 […]
Shabaab joins illicit sugar trade
A group of 60 armed men raided the village of Pandanguo in Lamu, torching a school and several houses, harassing women and children, and stealing valuables, before disappearing into the forest. Residents are fleeing Lamu county and schools have been closed due to security fears following recent attacks that killed at least 80 people. National […]
Security forces arrested some 70 suspects last in Lamu and Tana River in connection with last month’s violence in Mpeketoni, and charged two previously arrested suspects with murder. About 20 gunmen raided a police camp in Mpeketoni on the night of July 7, killing three people and burning down the camp. Unknown assailants attacked a […]
Shabaab claimed yesterday’s attacks in the coastal towns of Gamba and Hindi, where at least 29 people were killed by gunmen. The Shabaab militants also broke into the Gamba jail during the attack, freeing a number of inmates, including suspects in the recent attacks in nearby Mpeketoni. The attackers also burned buildings, including a church, […]
Abandoned KDF war boys return to unleash terror in Kenya
A Kenyan MP claimed that about 3,000 Kenyan and Somali youth trained under a US-funded program to provide security for a buffer zone along the Somali border have instead become terrorists for hire in Kenya. A police officer investigating “sensitive cases” was shot and killed by three gunmen in Mombasa, where Shabaab sympathizers have murdered […]
Suspected Shabaab militants killed five people in Witu near Lamu; six more were also reportedly killed in neighboring villages. A massacre in nearby Mpeketoni last week is being blamed on a major “security collapse,” as authorities had been warned of an impending attack. A Nairobi judge rejected the prosecution’s attempt to cancel bail for Ahmed […]
Jermaine Grant trial: ‘Warning text’ in Kenya bomb plot
Police have arrested several suspects in the recent attacks in Mpeketoni and Poromoko, as well as a suspect operating social media accounts used by Shabaab to claim responsibility; the local police commander was sacked. Five suspects in the attacks were shot dead by police yesterday. The Mpeketoni attackers reportedly claimed to be Shabaab from Somalia […]
Although Shabaab claimed responsibility for two recent attacks in Kenyan coastal towns, the government blamed the attacks on “local political networks.”
The Red Cross said 52 people are missing following a suspected Shabaab attack on the coastal town of Mpeketoni on June 15; the next day 15 more people were killed in an attack on a nearby village. President Kenyatta claimed that the attack was politically motivated and not the work of Shabaab. Witnesses claimed that […]
Suspected Shabaab gunmen attacked Mpeketoni police station in Lamu county, then set fire to three hotels, a restaurant, and a police station before fleeing. At least six people were killed in the attack, but the casualty count is likely to rise; the Red Cross was unable to visit the town due to ongoing violence. Political […]
Gunmen in Mombasa killed moderate cleric Sheikh Mohammed Idris, chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya. Idris, a vocal opponent of Shabaab, had been threatened previously and was involved in a power struggle with extremists at his mosque. Terror charges were filed against Jabareen Ahmad a.k.a. Ahmad Ahmad Mohamood Salim a.k.a. Harun […]
Kenyan police are looking into reports that a woman resembling wanted Shabaab terrorist Samantha Lewthwaite had tried to cross over into Somalia from Lamu county and then vanished after border guards denied her permission. The head of the National Task Force on Community Policing urged the Kenyan media to demonstrate patriotism by avoiding coverage of […]