Biden set to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan

By Reuters,

President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al Qaeda attac...

Afghanistan , AL QAEDA , President Joe Biden , U.S. troops

Suspected suicide bombing at Indonesian church wounds 14 people

By Reuters,

Two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on t...

Indonesia , National Counterterrorism Agency , SUICIDE BOMBERS

US President Joe Biden’s phone call with President Kenyatta

By Benjamin Muriuki,

US President Joe Biden on Thursday made an official call to President Uhuru Kenyatta where he assured his commitment to uphold strong bilateral ties b...

Joe Biden , Uhuru kenyatta

OPINION: U.K. can do more to strengthen security relations with Kenya

By Guest Writer,

Kenya and the United Kingdom continue to partner in key security cooperation programs exhibiting the two countries’ commitment in strengthening long...

Al Shabaab , BATUK , security , Theresa May

Pompeo on ICC: U.S. won’t be threatened by a ‘kangaroo court’

By Citizen Reporter,

U.S. Secretary of State Department Mike Pompeo has once again lashed out at the International Criminal Court saying it has no business trying to prose...

Afghanistan , ICC , Pompeo , war crimes

U.S. charges Kenyan man with researching 9/11-style airplane hijacking

By Reuters,

U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged a Kenyan man with terrorism-related offences including conspiring for a 9/11-style airplane hijack...

9/11 attacks , Cholo Abdi Abdullah , Dusit

Kenya to open consulate in Hargeisa next year, Uhuru and Somaliland President Muse Bihi agree

By Ian Omondi,

Kenya is set to open a Consulate in Hargeisa by the end of March 2021, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Somaliland counterpart Muse Bihi Abdi have agr...

Hargeisa , President Muse Bihi Abdi , President Uhuru Kenyatta , Somaliland

U.S. decision to withdraw troops dismays some Somalis

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of Somalia in the waning days of his presidency triggered dismay on Saturday from some Som...

President Donald Trump , President-elect Joe Biden , somalia , U.S. troops

US President Donald Trump orders all 700 American troops out of Somalia

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump has ordered nearly all American troops to withdraw from Somalia, U.S. officials said on Friday, part of a global pullback by th...

AL QAEDA , American troops , Joe Biden , President Donald Trump , President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed

Gov’t focused on modernization of security sector: President Kenyatta

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has reiterated Government's commitment to the modernisation of the country's security apparatus. The President said despit...

President Uhuru Kenyatta

Trump administration removes senior defense officials and installs loyalists, triggering alarm at Pentagon

By CNN,

The Trump administration has carried out sweeping changes atop the Defense Department's civilian leadership structure, removing several of its most se...

Donald Trump , Joe Biden , Pentagon

Trump to remove Sudan from terrorism blacklist after Ksh.36B pay to U.S. victims

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump announced on Monday the United States would remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as soon as Khartoum sets ...

Bashir , U.S. Embassy bombing

CS Matiang’i freezes assets of 9 individuals accused of financing Al Shabaab

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang'i has ordered the freezing of funds and property belonging to nine individuals believed to have been suppo...

Russia offered Taliban fighters cash rewards to kill US, UK troops in Afghanistan

By CNN,

Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they killed U...

John Ratcliffe , President Donald Trump , Taliban Militants , US intelligence , White House

Tanzania, Sudan, Nigeria on U.S. travel ban list

By CNN,

The Trump administration on Friday announced an expansion of the travel ban -- one of the President's signature policies, which has been derided by cr...

Tanzania , Travel ban , Trump

OPINION: How to boost Africa and South East Asia cooperation

By Citizen Reporter,

By Joel Okwemba Considered one of humanity’s great early achievements is the crossing of early man from Asia to Australia. Archeological, geneti...

U.S. sanctions former Uganda police boss Kayihura Muhwezi

By Girlie Kendi,

Former Uganda police boss Edward Kalekezi Kayihura Muhwezi has been sanctioned by the U.S department of State. A statement released on Friday said ...

Kale Kayihura , mukhwezi

Matiang’i says Mombasa gang attacks linked to drug trafficking

By George Aoko,

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i says the recent Mombasa attacks in which innocent residents were viciously hacked by knife-wielding criminal...

Fred Matiang'i , Mombasa gangs

U.S. not ready to remove Sudan from sponsors of terrorism list

By Reuters,

The United States still needs to resolve longstanding issues with Sudan before it can consider removing it from its list of state sponsors of terroris...

Sudan , terrorism , United States

Survivors of the August 7 bomb blast mark 21-year anniversary

By Citizen Reporter,

Survivors and families of those who perished in the August 7, 1998 bomb blast are on Wednesday set to convene at the Memorial Park in Nairobi. Twen...

bomb blast