The author discusses the trilogy of novels that propelled her onto the Booker shortlist, and their relevance to present-day Zimbabwe
Double-registration has effectively rendered stateless tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who are ethnically Somali
The attack at DusitD2 is the first in Nairobi in five years, when gunmen stormed the city’s Westgate shopping mall, killing at least 67 people
Kenyan police have charged five men in connection with the attack by the armed group al-Shabab on a university in eastern Kenya.
Some welcome the security move but Somalia’s president says a barrier can’t stop an ideology.
No justification can redeem acts such as the Garissa massacre. Such clarity is a boon when it can be hard to sort freedom fighters from terrorists.
Kenya has frozen the bank accounts of 85 individuals and entities suspected to be financing terrorism in the country, including money transfer firms.
As students hold vigils for those who died at Garissa, the attack brings to light the failings of the Kenyan government in dealing with terrorism.
Violence has broken out again in Kenya’s northeast, with eight people shot and wounded, a day after security forces cracked down on rioters.
Two Kenyan police officers believed to have been kidnapped by Islamist fighters have been found murdered on the border with Somalia, police said on Thursday. ”At 7.30am [local…
A woman who claimed spiritual powers and briefly led a northern Uganda insurgency has died in a Kenyan refugee camp, a government official said. Alice Lakwena, who was in her…
Nearly 12 000 Somali refugees will be transferred this week to a camp in northwestern Kenya to await resettlement in the United States, UN officials said Sunday.
