President Pierre Nkurunzizza has sensationally claimed there is Al Shabaab threat on Kenya, Uganda and Burundi. He made the statements in first public appearance after the failed coup to topple him. While Kenya has been under high terror alert, the authorities are yet to inform the country of any immediate terror threats, prompting observers to […]

By Strategic Intelligence News Somali based jihadists Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militants attempted to ambush a Kenya Army Border Operations Special unit forward base. The militants also staged an attack at the village of Haamey, a tiny frontier village 40 kilometres from the border with Somalia. The militants torched 3 thatched huts. Army personnel from the forward base […]

National Assembly majority leader Aden Duale has given parents in northern Kenya a seven-day ultimatum to volunteer information about their children who have joined al Shabaab militants. Duale said parents must seize the opportunity and account for all the children who have joined the ranks of the terrorist group. He did not specify what will […]

By Reuters The Kenyan air force bombed two Al Shabaab camps in Somalia on Sunday, a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) source said, in the first major military response to last week’s attack by the militant group on a Garissa university killing 148 people. Jets pounded the camps in Gondodowe and Ismail, both in the Gedo […]

Top Muslim cleric has termed the move by police to display naked bodies of the killed Ashabaab attackers in Garissa campus siege a ‘stupid PR’ exercise that will most likely encourage radicalization of local youths. Islam religion respects the dead and always call for a quick disposal the soonest time possible of dead bodies. parading […]

Al-Shabaab accessed Garissa University at 3.am and conducted a religious profiling exercise for nearly an hour before calling in the main attackers into the compound. The attackers had posed as worshipers at a mosque in the college It is after separating Muslim students from Christians they began the killings. Kenya Intelligence Service report that Senior […]

Masked gunmen attack Garissa University College, heavy gunfire reported in the institution as police and military engage attackers; scores injured. Gunmen Thursday stormed Moi University campus in Garissa Town causing a major siege and casualties. Gunshots and explosions were heard from the compound for hours as police and military were mobilised to the institution. It […]

MANDERA COUNTY: At least 38 quarry workers were Tuesday killed by suspected Al-Shabaab militants in an attack Koromei area, Mandera County. The workers were ambushed as at the site as they slept by gunmen believed to be the militants and killed by shooting. Others were decapitated by the attackers. Other reports say the attackers kidnapped […]

At least 28 people were killed after suspected Al-Shabaab militants attacked a Nairobi-bound bus in Mandera. Confirming the 5:30am attack, Mandera East deputy County Commissioner Elvis Korir said initial reports indicated that about a 100 armed militia stopped the bus and ordered everyone out. He said the attack happened as the bus — from Makkah […]

By Oduor Ong’wen “Three days before the raid, NIS [National Intelligence Service] officers relayed information to their bosses in Nairobi about a looming high-scale attack by Al-Shabaab. They advised NIS headquarters to send alerts across the county and mobilise adequate personnel,” the source said.  This is what a leading daily reported in the wake of […]

By Seth Odongo It often amazes how a man can miss it. In such moments, we are reminded that man’s intelligence can be the only stupid thing about man. Charles Onyango Obbo, whom I like referring to as ‘learned journalist’, the other day wasted a whole column in Daily Nation creating an absurd  historical parallel between […]