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A joint INTERPOL and AFRIPOL operation including eight East African nations leads to the arrest of 37 people and the seizure of small and heavy weapons in Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and Tanzania.
2025-01-27

The prime suspect arrested over the discovery of nine mutilated female bodies in a rubbish dump in the Mukuru slums of Nairobi, Kenya, confesses to killing 42 women. Another man is also arrested.
2024-07-15

Fifty-eight people have been killed in Tanzania and 13 people have been killed in Kenya in the past two weeks by flooding caused by torrential rains, with more than 125,000 people in coastal areas of East Africa affected by the flooding. Tanzania announces plans to construct fourteen dams in an attempt to reduce the damage from future floods.
2024-04-15

A forum for the promotion of LGBT rights is hosted in Kigali, Rwanda, in order to address minority rights. At the forum, a Rwandan man describes being assaulted by family members when he came out as gay. The forum also documented and urged the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Kenya to decriminalize homosexuality and protect the minority.
2021-09-10

Kenya bans all public gatherings and in-person meetings, as well as extends the nationwide curfe] to from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
2021-07-30

An al-Shabaab attack on a village near the Kenyan town of Mandera results in six deaths.
2016-10-6

At least 38 police officers are killed in northern Kenya amid clashes with cattle rustlers.
2012-11-12

At least 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa.
2012-07-1

East Africa's high-speed internet access is severely damaged by a ship dropping its anchor onto the fibre-optic cables of the TEAMS and EASSy cable systems off the coast of Mombasa, Kenya.
2012-02-27

The European Union promises €500 million towards the 2010-11 budget of Kenya, the largest economy in East Africa.
2010-06-12