Tag: Al-shabaab

Kenya renews its push to add Al-Shabaab to UN sanctions list

Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma leads calls to add Somalia’s Al-Shabaab group to the same same sanctions list as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

KDF kills 4 Shabaab in failed attack on Kenya-US base

Kenya Defence Forces says it has repulsed an Al-Shabaab attack on a US military camp in Lamu County early Sunday.

Revealed: Some of the Lamu buses attackers masqueraded as passengers

Police have arrested two suspects who were among the passengers but were armed with pistols and were spared by the Al-Shabaab militants during the attack.

Death toll in Somalia bombing climbs to 81: govt

The death toll from a massive car bomb in the Somali capital has risen to 81, a government spokesman said Monday, as rescue workers pursued their search for the missing. The bombing Saturday at a busy intersection in Mogadishu was the country’s deadliest attack in two years. No one has claimed responsibility, though President Mohamed […]

Suspected al-Shabaab militants blow up construction equipment worth Ksh39.8M

Suspected al-Shabaab militants on Sunday 2:45am blew up road construction equipment estimated to cost Ksh39.8M at Hagarsu in Mandera East.

Suspected Al-Shabaab militants attempts to destroy mast foiled

Seven militants armed with AK-47 rifles struck on Tuesday at midnight and destroyed the diesel generator used to power the telco mast.

Al-Shabaab militants killed ‘their own’ in Dadajabulla attack

According to the police, the attackers struck on Tuesday night at about 8pm, taking advantage of heavy rains pounding the area.