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Widespread flooding occurs in Nairobi, Kenya, with tens of thousands of people affected.
2024-04-24

One person dies and at least 31 are injured when students and staff at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, frantically try to escape after hearing nearby gunshots during an “approved safety and security simulation drill.” The Strathmore campus did not hear, before or during the test, that this was a drill. Tensions have been high at Kenyan schools since April when 139 were killed during a terrorist attack at Garissa University College. Many Kenyan universities have held security drills; six were hospitalized at the latest at Kenyatta University.
2015-11-30

For the second day in a row a multi-story residential building in Nairobi, Kenya, collapses, this time an 8-story building, killing one person with eight people still missing.
2015-01-5

A six-story building collapse in Nairobi, Kenya, kills one person and leaves several others injured.
2015-01-4

Explosions kill at least five people and injure several more in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
2014-03-31

One person is killed and at least fourteen people are injured in two separate terrorist attacks in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, both attributed to al-Shabaab.
2011-10-24

At least one person is dead and 29 are injured after an underground fuel pipe explodes in Nairobi, Kenya.
2011-06-5

Nearly 30 people are injured in an explosion in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
2011-06-5

The Ugandan political opposition, the Forum for Democratic Change, claims that its leader Kizza Besigye has been barred from boarding a flight to Kampala from the Kenyan capital Nairobi. [http:--www.trust.org-alertnet-news-uganda-opposition-leader-barred-from-flight (Reuters via Alertnet)]date=August 2019
2011-05-11

Kenyan policeman Peter Karanja kills 10 people, including two colleagues, in a shooting rampage in bars in Siakago, 90 miles northeast of Nairobi. Protesters outside the police station demand answers from police as to how this incident happened.
2010-11-7