Tag: Al-Shabaab

Kenyan pastor killed after running peace workshop

July 5, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi, Somalia

A pastor was among the six people killed when gunmen attacked two buses on Friday in Kenya’s north-eastern region of Mandera, near the Somalia border. Pastor John Njaramba Kiruga, was returning home from facilitating a training on pursuing peace between Christian and Muslims in Garissa and Mandera, a volatile region where . . . Read More

At least six killed in bus attack in NE Kenya

July 1, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi, Somalia

At least six people were killed as gunmen attacked two buses on Friday in Kenya’s north-eastern region of Mandera, near the Somalia border. The identity of the assailants is not yet known, but attacks carried out by Al Shabaab are frequent in that volatile region. In November 2014, a bus . . . Read More

Garissa mastermind ‘killed’ in raid

June 2, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Somalia

The suspected mastermind behind the Garissa University attack in April 2015, when , has been killed, according to Somalia’s security minister. The Kenyan government put up a $215,000 reward for Mohamed Kuno’s capture after the Garissa attack. He was reportedly killed during a raid in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo. . . . Read More

Kenyans mourn 147 victims on anniversary of Garissa attack

April 4, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Somalia

UPDATE (4 April) Memorial events were held in Kenya on Saturday (2 April), as Kenyans marked the anniversary of the day Al-Shabaab militants stormed the University campus in Garissa – in Kenya’s volatile east, near the Somalia border – and slaughtered 147* mostly Christian students. A tree-planting ceremony and procession took . . . Read More

Can Garissa ever recover after mass killing?

January 12, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Nairobi

A journalist, who was profoundly affected when he reported from Kenya’s Garissa University College after 148 students died, has returned since to see if life can ever be the same for Garissa. The , from Garissa, describes how what he saw during the April 2015 attack by Al-Shabaab militant Islamists caused him . . . Read More

Kenyan imam jailed for radicalising children

January 8, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mombasa

A Kenyan imam has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for radicalising children. Salim Mohamed Wabwire, who converted from Christianity to Islam, taught children that Christians should be killed, . However, Wabwire, a primary school teacher and imam at a village mosque near Mombasa, was not found guilty of . . . Read More

Kenyan university reopens 9 months after massacre

January 4, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya

Kenya’s Garissa University has reopened nine months after a Somalian Islamist group attacked the campus and killed 148 students, . Many by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab gunmen in what was the deadliest attack on Kenyan soil since the US Embassy bombings in 1998. Police have established a post on the campus . . . Read More

Muslims defend Christians from Islamist attack

December 21, 2015 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi, Somalia

Kenyan Muslims defended Christians during an attack by Islamist gunmen on a bus near the Somali border, the . A local governor told Kenyan media Muslims had told the attackers to “kill them together or leave them alone”. At least two people were killed in the attack, however, near the . . . Read More

Pope in Africa says conflict ‘feeds on fear, mistrust and despair’

November 26, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country African Union, Al-Mourabitoun, Al-Shabaab, Bamako, Central African Republic, Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Kampala, Kenya, Nairobi, Nicolas Guérékoyamé-Gbangou, Oumar Kobine Layama, PK5, Pope Francis, Uganda, Westgate

For his first trip to Africa, Pope Francis is visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic (CAR), from 25-30 November. The three countries all have predominantly Christian populations – Kenya about 80%, Uganda 85% and CAR 76% – with about 10% or so Muslim in each of them. But . . . Read More

Kenya to ‘re-integrate’ ex-Al-Shabaab recruits

November 9, 2015 Kenya African Union, Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Mombasa, Somalia

Kenya has welcomed the return of 700 citizens who had joined Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militant group that has attacked churches, malls and government institutions, most notably Garissa University College where nearly 150 people — mostly Christian students — were killed last spring. The returning militants are said to be undergoing rehabilitation . . . Read More

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