Topic: Nairobi

Somalis and Muslims fear backlash after Kenya blasts

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethnic Somalis in Nairobi prepared for a possible backlash on Tuesday after explosions in the Kenyan capital following the country's military foray into Somalia.Two grenade blasts killed one person and wounded more than 20 on Monday, two days after ...

Grenade attack at Nairobi bar wounds 13

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A grenade exploded in a Nairobi bar on Monday wounding 13 people, two days after Kenya's U.S. embassy warned of an imminent attack there as the east African nation fights Islamist militants in neighboring Somalia.Kenyan Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere ...
A grenade was thrown into a discotheque in the centre of Kenyan capital Nairobi early Monday injuring 14 people, central Nairobi police chief Eric Mugambi said."Initial investigations show it is a grenade that was thrown inside" the disco, Mugambi said, adding: "Fourteen ...
Al-Qaeda's presumed head in east Africa, Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, wanted for blowing up the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, died in a shootout in the Somali capital, officials said Saturday.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reacted immediately, calling it a "significant ...
Kenya welcomed Osama bin Laden's killing Monday as payback for the 1998 east African embassy bombings but said it was too soon to lower its guard against Islamic extremists, especially from Somalia.Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said the killing of the Al-Qaeda chief ...

Somali Shabaab's threat to strike U.S. seen empty

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab rebels are seen as lacking the numbers and unity of purpose to carry out a threat by one of their leaders to attack the United States on its own territory.Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, number three in ...

Kenya, Uganda see terrorist link to Nairobi blast

NAIROBI/KAMPALA (Reuters) - Kenyan and Ugandan police said Tuesday an explosion in Nairobi a day earlier may have been linked to threats of attacks by al Qaeda-linked groups.Ugandan security agencies had already said they were on high alert for strikes by insurgents ...

Two dead in explosion in Kampala-bound Kenya bus

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two people were killed on Monday when a bag exploded as it was about to be loaded onto a Kampala-bound bus in the Kenyan capital, an incident police said bore the hallmarks of a terrorist strike.Ugandan security agencies said ...

Kenya asks FBI to help investigate attacks on police

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has asked the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to help probe two separate grenade and gun attacks that killed three police officers, the chief of police said on Saturday.Kenyan police said they hoped to draw on the FBI's ...

Kenyan police officer killed in blast in capital

NAIROBI (Reuters) - An explosive device hurled into a police van in a Somali suburb of the Kenyan capital on Friday killed one officer in what a police commander said appeared to be a terrorist attack.The attack took place in Eastleigh, a ...
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