The world’s oldest tools – made by ancestors of modern humans some 3.3 million years ago – have been found in Kenya. Stones had been deliberately “knapped” or flaked to make a sharp cutting edge, researchers said, according to Science magazine. They are about 700,000 years older than the previous […]
The world’s oldest tools – made by ancestors of modern humans some 3.3 million years ago – have been found in Kenya. Stones had been deliberately “knapped” or flaked to make a sharp cutting edge, researchers said, according to Science magazine. They are about 700,000 years older than the previous […]
The last male northern white rhino is under armed guard 24 hours a day at a Kenyan reserve to protect him from poachers. The rhino, named Sudan, is cared for by rangers at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, along with his two female companions. The trio make up three of […]
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned Kenya not to expel Somali refugees in response to al-Shabab’s massacre of students. Kenya has given UNHCR three months to close the the Dadaab refugee camp, which houses 350,000 Somali refugees. The Kenyan government believes al-Shabab militants who killed 148 people at […]
Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday gave the United Nations’ refugee agency three months to relocate refugees from the Dadaab camp — the world’s largest — to Somalia, or “we shall relocate them ourselves.” “The way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa,” Ruto […]
Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday gave the United Nations’ refugee agency three months to relocate refugees from the Dadaab camp — the world’s largest — to Somalia, or “we shall relocate them ourselves.” “The way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa,” Ruto […]
Mohamed Mohamud, also known as Dulyadin or Gamadhere, is a teacher of terror. Well known to Kenyan authorities before Thursday’s attack, he is reported to have been a military commander, based in Mogadishu, and is thought to have become the man responsible for leading al-Shabaab’s attacks within Kenya. Last month […]
Source: bbc.co.uk Two African newspapers have apologised for publishing Charlie Hebdo’s cover depicting the Prophet Muhammad, after an outcry from Muslim readers. Kenya’s The Star and South Africa’s The Citizen said they regretted any offence caused to Muslims. Kenya’s media regulator has summoned The Star’s owner after accusing it of […]
BBC News: Kenya has deregistered 510 non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including 15 accused of links with terrorism, an official has said. The government has also frozen their bank accounts and revoked the work permits of foreign employees. The move follows a heated debate in Kenya over a controversial new security bill […]
BBC News: The slaughter of 28 people on a bus in Kenya is a bid to start a religious war, a senior adviser to President Uhuru Kenyatta has told the BBC. Abdikadir Mohammed called on Kenyans of “all faiths and creeds” to stand together against the “heinous crimes”. At dawn […]
Kenya’s Western-funded anti-terrorism unit has carried out a series of killings and “enforced disappearances” during its fight against militant Islamists, a rights group says. READ MORE…
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A brutal attack on a crowd of World Cup watchers at a hotel in northern Kenya has reportedly left at least 48 people dead. One of the survivors told The Daily Beast that the assailants were killing non-Muslims execution-style. Kenyan government officials claimed the attack could be the work of […]
by Malkhadir Muhumed Nairobi, Kenya – Kenyan men have practiced polygamy, or plural marriage, as far back as they can remember. In fact, the country has produced Ancentus Akuku Ogwela, who married 130 wives, and, when he died at 92, left behind 210 children.But a new marriage bill that gives […]
by Malkhadir Muhumed Nairobi, Kenya – Kenyan men have practiced polygamy, or plural marriage, as far back as they can remember. In fact, the country has produced Ancentus Akuku Ogwela, who married 130 wives, and, when he died at 92, left behind 210 children.But a new marriage bill that gives […]
Epigraph: And if you fear that you will not be fair in dealing with the orphans, then marry of women as may be agreeable to you, two, or three, or […]
By Akbar Ahmed The Daily Star Story Summary The outrageous killings at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and the All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, last month once again prompted legitimate questions about what can be done to stop terrorist violence. In the case of the Pakistan attacks, […]
It was one of the most moving images of Kenya’s Westgate Mall terror attack — a little girl running in terror across an empty corridor to the outstretched arm of […]
Source: The Economist: THE first major response to the terrorist attack on the Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, came two weeks to the day after the shooting began on September 21st. US Navy Seals (pictured above on a training exercise) led a failed morning raid on a house in […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The Asian Muslim community in Nairobi, Kenya, is expressing solidarity with relatives of the 67 people killed by Islamic militants in last week’s attack on an […]