Passenger van was traveling from area with community of ethnic Somalis to city center
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Nairobi Mall Terrorists May Have Escaped
NYPD investigation into attack shows glaring inconsistencies with official version of events
Nairobi Westgate Mall Attacker ID’d as Somali Refugee
One of the four men who killed 67 people at a Kenyan mall
Kenyan Muslim Cleric Shot Dead, Unrest Feared
Gunmen in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa shot dead a popular Muslim cleric who preached at a mosque linked in the past to Somali Islamist militants, police said on Friday, Reuters reports.
Ibrahim Omar and three other people were shot as they drove home on Thursday night after preaching, the BBC says. The apparent assassination comes …
Al-Shabaab Threatens Further Attacks in Kenya
Islamist group’s statement on Wednesday follows a refusal by Kenya to withdraw its troops from Somalia
Kenya Sees in Terrorist Attack the Long Hand of al-Qaeda
With the standoff between a group of terrorists and Kenyan government forces at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall officially over, the Kenyan government and its foreign allies are intensifying their efforts to find out who the …
Four Incredible Survivor Stories From The Kenya Terror Attack
The terror unleashed in Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall started on Saturday afternoon, with gunshots shattering the buzz of the popular weekend meeting spot. The ensuing hostage crisis left at least 61 civilians dead and a …
Militants Claim Kenya Mall Rescuers Buried Hostages with Explosives
Government denies the charge
The Security Lapses That Led to the Nairobi-Mall Terrorist Attack
As Kenyan security forces fought a fierce gun battle against al-Shabab militants at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall on Monday, trying to break the three-day hostage siege, some wondered how the country’s intelligence and …
Massive Fire Rips Through Nairobi Airport
The blaze at eastern Africa’s largest airport left the arrivals hall reduced to charcoal at the height of tourism season
A Novel Response to the World’s Worst Famine: War.
In September, Somalis kidnappers kill a British tourist and his wife; later they kidnap a disabled French tourist, who subsequently dies; then in October they abduct two Spanish aid workers. In reply Kenya, whose economy depends heavily on tourism, sends hundreds of troops into southern Somalia in pursuit of an al-Qaeda affiliate, …
In the Country Where the War on Terror Began, bin Laden’s Death offers Cold Comfort
On the corner of Moi and Haile Selassie Avenues in downtown Nairobi, a small, grassy garden favored by office workers on a lunch break, where a takeaway stand sells quarter chickens for 120 Kenyan shillings ($1.40), marks the start of the war on terror. It was here, at 10.30am on August 7, 1998, that Osama bin Laden first made good on …