
President Obama’s imminent trip to Kenya continues to spark controversy. First came promises from the student body at the University of Nairobi of mass suicides and urinating on a tree he once planted there if he fails to visit their campus
by Sarkis Zeronian15 Jul 2015, 4:10 AM PST0

Contents: Greece’s Alexis Tsipras compares himself to the tragic Antigone; Furious European MEPs plan for humanitarian aid for Greece; Tunisia to build a wall and a moat along the border with Libya
by John J. Xenakis9 Jul 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

As US President Barack Obama prepares to visit Kenya, the country of his estranged father’s birth, Kenyans are lining up to tell him: don’t come if you’re going to lecture us on gay marriage as we are still a God
by Donna Rachel Edmunds8 Jul 2015, 6:12 AM PST0

A Kenyan politician is warning President Obama to leave his liberal agenda at home in the United States during his upcoming visit to the African country.
by Michael Lucchese7 Jul 2015, 8:27 PM PST0

Somalian radical Islamic group al-Shabaab killed 14 people and injured 11 more in an attack in Kenya’s Soko Mbuzi this week. The village is in northeastern Kenya and very close to the Somalia border.
by Mary Chastain7 Jul 2015, 7:43 PM PST0

Kenyan leaders are warning President Obama not to bring his “gay agenda” with him when he visits his father’s homeland at the end of this month to open the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
by Dr. Susan Berry7 Jul 2015, 1:24 PM PST0

Evil is on the march across the globe today, as a string of potentially ISIS-related atrocities is joined by a brutal attack on an African Union military base in Somalia by al-Shabaab, which has traditionally been an al-Qaeda affiliate, but has been courted by the Islamic State.
by John Hayward27 Jun 2015, 7:44 AM PST0

Kenyan authorities have frozen the financial accounts and cancelled the licenses of four bus companies suspected of aiding Al Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror group that is linked with Al Qaeda.
by Jordan Schachtel24 Jun 2015, 2:41 PM PST0

Kenyan law enforcement is offering ten million Kenyan shillings–slightly more than $100,000–for information which could lead to the capture of Andreas Martin Mueller, a German national who left his homeland to fight for the jihadist group al-Shabaab and remains on the run after an attack on a military base.
by Frances Martel22 Jun 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

The Somali Islamist terror gang known as al-Shabaab—traditionally allied with al-Qaeda but said to be considering overtures from ISIS—has been very active lately.
by John Hayward15 Jun 2015, 9:29 PM PST0

Al-Shabaab, a Somali terror group, has been making waves in a big way in Kenya over the last several days.
by Michael Lucchese3 Jun 2015, 4:49 PM PST0

“My love is real,” Kenyan attorney Felix Kiprono Matagei tells Kenyan news outlet The Nairobian, in an interview in which he explains his plan to request Malia Obama’s hand in marriage from her father when the President visits Kenya in July. Kiprono is offering 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats as “bride price,” and vows to woo the elder Obama daughter with traditional sour milk.
by Frances Martel27 May 2015, 9:35 AM PST0

The Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab executed yet another attack on Kenyan police near the city of Garissa on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks following the Easter massacre of Christians at Garissa University in April.
by Michael Lucchese26 May 2015, 9:05 AM PST0

Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab has once again begun to strike rural villages near the Kenyan town of Garissa, little more than a month after the jihadists stormed Garissa University and killed 147 Christian students after separating them from their Muslim colleagues.
by Frances Martel23 May 2015, 12:39 PM PST0

An anti-terror officer told The Daily Mirror that Samantha Lewthwaite, who has become known as the White Widow, is personally responsible for over 400 murders since she quickly rose up the ranks of Somalian radical Islam group al-Shabaab. “She is an
by Mary Chastain18 May 2015, 1:04 AM PST0

An April report in Kenya’s The Standard noted that the nation’s officials were preparing to crack down on terror warnings on social media meant to alarm–calling them “themselves terrorism in nature”–and warned that the jihadist group al-Shabaab had taken too strong a foothold on Twitter.
by Frances Martel7 May 2015, 7:16 AM PST0

20-year-old Juma Laki is a Kenyan who traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2013, looking for work. He just learned the hard way that chatting with a woman and keeping her photo on his smartphone is an “apparent contravention of the Sunni kingdom’s puritanical laws,” as Kenya’s Standard Digital puts it. After a friend sold him out to the Saudi “special police,” Laki found himself in jail.
by John Hayward29 Apr 2015, 5:17 PM PST0

The mother of a young British aristocrat broke down in court yesterday as she gave testimony during an inquiry into his death, describing his wounds inflicted by men she called ‘monsters’. The family of Alexander Monson, son of the 12th Baron
by Donna Rachel Edmunds28 Apr 2015, 6:58 AM PST0

The Kenyan government has arrested Hassan Mahat Omar, an Islamic cleric accused for years of supporting and recruiting for the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, for his role in helping fundraise to orchestrate the attack on Garissa University that left 148 Christian students dead earlier this month.
by Frances Martel22 Apr 2015, 1:04 PM PST0

The Kenyan government has broken ground on a new wall that will span a large swatch of the border between Kenya and Somalia. While the project had been announced in March, Kenyan authorities appear to have expedited the groundbreaking in response to the terrorist attack at Garissa University.
by Frances Martel17 Apr 2015, 9:16 AM PST0

The Somali terror group Al-Shabaab has taken credit for a suicide bombing and subsequent raid on a government building in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in which at least 17 people have died, according to the most recent estimates.
by Frances Martel14 Apr 2015, 7:30 PM PST0

Kenya’s oldest newspaper, The Standard, reports that the Iranian government warned Kenyan officials that the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab was planning to attack Garissa University.
by Frances Martel14 Apr 2015, 8:30 AM PST0

Desperate Kenya demands closure of refugee camp after Garissa school attack; Pakistan hits back at UAE over Yemen war military support issue
by John J. Xenakis13 Apr 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Senior Kenyan police official Pius Masai Mwachi has become the target of national disgust this week after implying that victims of the Garissa University terror attack that left 148 dead had not fought back sufficiently against the Al-Shabaab terrorists storming the campus. “Free yourself as soon as possible. Get out. Don’t just be killed like cockroaches,” he said.
by Frances Martel10 Apr 2015, 10:33 AM PST0

Germany fears wave of xenophobia after arson attack on refugee home; U.S. begins daily aerial refueling for Saudi warplanes in Yemen; Fears of tribal and ethnic violence in Kenya continue
by John J. Xenakis9 Apr 2015, 4:00 AM PST0