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Kenya attack senseless and appalling: Parties

South African political parties on Friday condemned the attack on the Garissa University in Kenya, where 147 people were killed by Al-Shabaab militants, calling it appalling and senseless. “The loss of life and attacks on defenseless citizens is indefensible and unjustifiable regardless of the circumstances,” ANC national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa[…]

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ANC appalled by Kenya attack

The attack at the Garissa university in Kenya, where 147 people were killed by Somali radicals was appalling and indefensible, the African National Congress said on Friday. “The loss of life and attacks on defenseless citizens is indefensible and unjustifiable regardless of the circumstances,” national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said. “We[…]

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University siege leaves 147 dead

At least 147 people have been killed after Kenyan troops cleared a university dormitory in the town of Garissa in northeast Kenya that had been seized by al-Shabab gunmen, the interior ministry says. Members of the Somalia-based group attacked the campus after dawn on Thursday and were holed up in[…]

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Gunmen storm Kenyan university

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[…]

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Radical attacks kill 173 in Kenya in 2014: Police

Radicals killed 173 people in Kenya in 2014, the highest number in the three years that Kenya has experienced violence blamed on neighboring Somalia’s al-Shabab radicals, Kenya’s police force said Wednesday. The 2014 death toll is even higher than that of 2013 when radicals killed 67 people in the assault[…]

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Kenya to probe Al Jazeera on death squad story

The Kenyan government said Tuesday it has ordered an investigation with a view to prosecuting the makers of an Al-Jazeera documentary which appeared to show Kenya officials admitting that police assassinate suspects in operations planned at the highest level of government. The Interior Security Ministry’s Twitter account said the “timing[…]

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ICC withdraws charges against Kenyatta

The International Criminal Court has withdrawn charges of crimes against humanity against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Fatou Bensouda, ICC prosecutor, filed a three-paragraph notice withdrawing the charges against Kenyatta but added that she reserved the right to file charges again should she get more evidence. “The evidence has not improved[…]

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Kenya security chiefs ousted after latest massacre

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[…]

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Kenyan leader vows fight against al-Shabab

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to continue the fight against Somalia’s armed group al-Shabab, hours after the group’s fighters said they had killed at least 36 people at a stone quarry in the country’s northeastern city of Mandera. Uhuru addressed the nation on Tuesday and announced that he had[…]

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