Topic: Nairobi

Senator Dick Lugar, with a visiting Pentagon arms control expert team, told reporters that despite the absence of immediate bioterrorism threats in the region, security in the labs handling dangerous pathogens was critical."It is so important that biosecurity be enhanced here and ...
I was flying from Nairobi through Heathrow this summer when the bomb scare happened. These days its almost impossible to stay calm during take off. It seems like we could blow up at any second. We have psyched ourselves out. The other ...
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being a survivor in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Whether it was that promise or the desire to be part of the jihad that motivated ...
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 anti-terrorism ...

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 already ...

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 were ...