Kenya president says talks with Obama to focus on extremism
By ANDREW NJUGUNA and TOM ODULA The fight against extremism will be the key topic of talks with President Barack Obama, who will be visiting the country of his father…
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Kenya security shakeup after extremist killings
By TOM ODULA Islamic extremists killed 36 non-Muslim workers in northern Kenya early Tuesday, prompting the president to shake up his security team, firing his interior minister and accepting the…
48 Kenyans dead: Witness: Gunmen spared Muslims
By TOM ODULA A member of the Kenyan security forces walks past the body of one of those who were killed by militants, in the village of Kibaoni just outside…
WORLD SEA PIRACY FALLS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR
By EILEEN NG FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 file photo, masked Somali pirate Hassan stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up on shore after the…
SOMALI POLICE STRUGGLE TO STOP DEADLY ATTACKS
By ABDI GULED In this photo taken Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, a Somali policeman searches people for explosives and other weapons at a road junction in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia.…
4 Somali gunmen in Kenya mall attack ID’d
By JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 file photo, a security officer helps a wounded woman outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, after gunmen threw…
UN says more than 100 feared dead in Somalia storm
This photo released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team shows an aerial view of flooding in and around Jowhar town in Somalia Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Heavy rains…
NORWEGIAN-SOMALI ID’D AS KENYA MALL ATTACKER
By TOM ODULA and JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this photo taken from footage from Citizen TV, via the Kenya Defence Forces and made available Friday, Oct. 4 2013, a…