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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

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni fires his son Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba as commander of the national infantry forces after Kainerugaba made a series of tweets threatening to capture Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya.
2022-10-5

At least 51 people are killed when a bus traveling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu veers off the road and overturns.
2018-10-10

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

Five people are killed after a grenade destroys a bus in Nairobi, Kenya.
2012-11-18

An explosion in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi kills at least one person.
2012-08-3

At least 75 people are killed by a petrol pipeline explosion in Nairobi, Kenya.
2011-09-12

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

2 tonnes of elephant ivory and five rhino horns disguised as avocados destined for Malaysia are seized in Nairobi, Kenya.
2010-08-23

At least five people die and dozens are injured in Nairobi, Kenya, when police clash with protesters demanding the release of Jamaican Muslim cleric Abdullah al-Faisal.
2010-01-15