Fighters from the al-Shabab group have attacked a base for African Union peacekeepers in southwestern Somalia, blasting their way into the compound and exchanging fire with peacekeepers, a Somali military official told Al Jazeera. Dozens of al-Shabab fighters on Friday assaulted the military base, which is run by Kenyan troops[…]
Kenya has suspended the licences of 13 Somali remittance firms following the assault on a college by al-Shabab fighters killing more than 200 people. The April 2 attack in Garissa, 200km from the Somalia border, was Kenya’s deadliest since al-Qaeda bombed the US embassy in 1998. Bashir Issa Ali, Somalia’s[…]
Masked gunmen have attacked a university in the town of Garissa in northeast Kenya, police said, as ongoing gunfire could be heard from the university premises. Witnesses said explosion and heavy gunfire rocked Garissa University College early on Thursday as the gunmen stormed the complex. Ambulances were seen driving injured[…]
A Kenyan official says a drone strike in Somalia is believed to have killed a senior member of the al-Shabab group who allegedly helped plan the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi. The official said Thursday that Adan Garar and two others are suspected to have been killed after their[…]
Kenya’s interior minister and police chief were removed from their posts on Tuesday, hours after Somalia’s Al Shabab rebels carried out a fresh massacre in the northeast of the country. In a televised address to the nation, President Uhuru Kenyatta also vowed his security forces will “intensify the war on[…]
Several people were killed when a powerful suicide car bomb exploded near Somalia’s parliament in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police and witnesses said. Al Shabab rebels claimed responsibility for the bombing, the latest in a surge of attacks in Mogadishu during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. “A car loaded with[…]
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