Topic: Nairobi

Kenya on Thursday made a fresh attempt to deport radical Jamaican imam Abdulla al-Faisal on a private jet scheduled to fly him back to his country, officials said. "I have been told by the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit officers that the subject is ...

Kenya tries to deport radical Jamaican imam

Kenya on Thursday made a fresh attempt to deport radical Jamaican imam Abdulla al-Faisal on a private jet scheduled to fly him back to his country, officials said. "I have been told by the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit officers that the subject is ...
Members of Somalia's hardline Islamist Shebab group released a song threatening to march on Nairobi in retaliation for a deadly Kenyan police crackdown on Muslims. "We have reached the border, we will enter Kenya, Inshallah we will get to Nairobi. Inshallah we ...

Kenya detains 300 Somali immigrants

Kenyan police detained 300 illegal Somali immigrants during a sweep that followed a deadly protest at Nairobi's main mosque, a senior official told AFP Monday. The raid on the city's Eastleigh neighbourhood was carried out by the elite General Service Unit and ...

Kenya to deport Muslim cleric without delay

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will deport jailed Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal "without delay" after a protest against his detention triggered battles with police in the capital Nairobi, a minister said on Saturday. Kenyan security forces used live rounds, tear gas ...

Somalia fires heads of police force and military

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's government fired the head of its police force and its military chief on Sunday two days after a suicide bomber killed three ministers and several others in the capital of the lawless Horn of Africa nation. Ministers had ...

Freed journalist feared being sold on in Somalia

NAIROBI (Reuters) - An Australian freelance journalist kidnapped in Somalia in August last year feared he would be handed over to hardline rebels when he was bundled into a car Wednesday night. Instead, photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian freelance reporter Amanda Lindhout ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday laid flowers on the site of the bombings against the US embassy in Nairobi that killed 213 people in 1998. Clinton, who kicked off a seven-nation, 11-day tour of Africa in Nairobi two days ...
Appeals court sets precedent on foreign searches in upholding 1998 embassy bombing convictionsA federal appeals court established a legal precedent Monday that U.S. citizens overseas can face searches without a warrant, ruling that three Osama bin Laden followers convicted in the deadly ...

Car bombs kill dozens in northern Somalia

A wave of synchronised suicide attacks on UN, diplomatic and government institutions in northern Somalia killed up to 31 people yesterday. Three car bombs detonated in Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway Somaliland region. Another two vehicles exploded in neighbouring Puntland which, ...
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