Sources: IOL
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
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
Thirty-four people are killed when a bus traveling from Meru plunges into a river in Nairobi, Kenya. 2022-07-24
Thirteen people are killed after a bus hit a roadside bomb planted by suspected Al-Shabaab militants in Mandera, Kenya, near the border with Somalia. 2022-01-31
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
The Al-Shabaab militant group launches a second attack near the Kenyan town of Mpeketoni killing another 10 people. 2014-06-16
In Kenya, Kalonzo Musyoka, the running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, claims that votes in the Kenyan presidential election have been doctored. 2013-03-7
Three suspected ivory poachers are shot dead by rangers in Kenya in separate incidents. 2010-11-1
Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya wins the 2010 Boston Marathon, setting a new course record. 2010-04-19