Containing Al-Shabab in Kenya doesn’t directly reduce the group’s standing inside Somalia
Kenya’s increasingly unpopular war in Somalia is in its fourth year and there is no easy way out.
When we commemorate the Westgate massacre in Nairobi, Kenya, we must not conflate the religion with extremism.
Gunmen involved in the Nairobi shopping mall attack were in apparent disagreement over whether they should kill women and small children.
Investigators have discovered a poem written by British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, addressed to deceased al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The Kenyan government says it believes it has recovered the remains of the four gunmen involved in the Westgate Mall shootings.
Following an attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall in September, officials in Kenya say two boxes of human remains were delivered to its city morgue.
An alleged senior member of al-Qaeda has been captured in Libya after US forces launched raids in the country and Somalia over the weekend.
On Saturday Kenya’s military spokesman named four men who are alleged to have been involved in the attack, which killed at least 67 people.
The Israeli-owned mall, which opened in 2007, was a fantasy land that insulated its visitors from the reality of other, poorer people’s lives.
The circumstances around the fraudulent acquisition of an SA passport by a terror suspect are still being investigated, says a government official.
The BBC’s Peter Taylor reports on the Kenyan recruitment network, which delivers would-be jihadists to be used on missions by al-Shabab in Somalia.
Reporting on the terror attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya was a blur of smoke, terror and confusion, writes Robyn Kriel.
Militant group al-Shabab, who have claimed responsibility for the attack on Westgate mall, have threatened to step up militant attacks against Kenya.
Jacob Zuma’s good-news philosophy is costing us lives, writes Verashni Pillay, in the wake of the Kenya attack and the release of the crime stats.
Another arrest has been made by Kenya over last week’s Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi that left 67 people dead.
Kenya has asked the US to lift an advisory warning US citizens over travelling there after the September 21 Nairobi mall attack.
Pressure mounted on the Kenyan authorities a week after the Nairobi mall carnage, amid accusations that top brass failed to heed security warnings.
Scores more bodies are believed to be buried under rubble in Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall.
In the days following the al-Shabab offensive, Uhuru Kenyatta tells his people to be tolerant
Home affairs says Samantha Lewthwaite’s passport was "cancelled" in 2011 as fear grows in Jo’burg’s "Little Mogadishu".
Somalians fear that they will become the targets of a police crackdown in both Kenya and South Africa.
The new era of global conflict proves that it is not sufficient for the left to leave religion to itself, says Paul Trewhela.
Westgate is a wake-up call and the hunt will be on for the man believed to be behind the attack.
The Westgate terror attack has exposed the soft underbelly of a country riddled with corruption.
But the attack on the Westgate mall is likely to rebound on tourism, the country’s Achilles heel.
Readers share their opinions on terrorism and the Westgate massacre, school pupil neglect and the lack of water in villages.
A debate around the term "White Widow" has raged in the M&G newsroom, with some feeling it’s racist. Chris Roper weighs in on the argument.
A South African passport alleged to have been used by Samantha Lewthwaite to enter Kenya had been issued in Durban but was "cancelled" in 2011.
Britain’s top diplomat in Kenya has said the arrest of a Briton following the Westgate mall shooting is not significant for investigations.
Explosives experts are searching for possible booby-traps in the wreckage of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall after a four-day bloodbath.
The British Foreign Office has confirmed that a British man has been arrested in Kenya following the siege at Westgate mall that has left dozens dead.