Sources: IOL
Israel appoints Michael Lotem as the first Israeli ambassador to Somaliland, months after Israel officially recognised the breakaway region in Somalia. Lotem previously served as the Israeli ambassador to Kenya. 2026-04-15
Kenya's Magistrates' Court issues an arrest warrant and seeks the extradition of a British citizen over the 2012 murder of Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru near a British army training camp in Nanyuki, Laikipia County. 2025-09-16
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
Forty-seven members of the Good News International Church are found dead from suspected starvation in Malindi, Kilifi County, Kenya. 2023-04-23
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
Six men are killed by suspected al-Shabaab militants in a village in Lamu County, Kenya, near the border with Somalia. 2022-01-3
Taiwan accuses China of "extrajudicial abduction" after 45 Taiwanese acquitted of fraud in Kenya were forcibly deported to China. 2016-04-12
Gunmen in Kenya's port city of Mombasa kill Mohamed Idris, chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, who opposed the radical preachings of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab insurgents. 2014-06-10
At least 39 people are killed in clashes between rival communities in Kenya. 2012-12-21
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