Sources: IOL
At least six police officers are killed and five others are injured in an Al-Shabaab attack on a police reservists camp in Fafi, Garissa, Kenya. Dozens of militants are also killed. 2025-03-23
A vehicle travelling from Hayley Lapsset camp to Garissa, Kenya, hits a roadside bomb planted by Al-Shabaab militants, who then engage in a shootout with the car's occupants, killing two police officers and a civilian, and injuring several others. 2022-12-21
Thirty-four people are killed when a bus traveling from Meru plunges into a river in Nairobi, Kenya. 2022-07-24
The President of Tanzania John Magufuli has not been seen in public since February 27. Opposition leaders call for the release of information as rumors grow that he is on a ventilator at a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. 2021-03-10
A high court in Kenya blocks a government bid to close the Dadaab refugee camp and repatriate over 260,000 Somali refugees back to Somalia. The government said it will appeal against the ruling. 2017-02-9
Pope Francis, speaking in the Kenyan shantytown Kangemi, a sprawling slum filled with tin-roofed homes, lashes out at the elite in a neighborhood that feels largely disenfranchised. He describes injustices against the poor, such as unfair distribution of land, and lack of access to infrastructures and basic services, as "new forms of colonialism." 2015-11-27
Thirteen Kenyan police officers are missing after an Al-Shabaab ambush in Garissa County. 2015-05-26
At least 38 police officers are killed in northern Kenya amid clashes with cattle rustlers. 2012-11-12
Officials in Kenya say that two Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards arrested with explosives planned to attack Israeli, American, British and Saudi Arabian targets inside Kenya. 2012-07-2
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