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There’s excitement on the streets at the president’s visit, which offers a chance to mend strained relations with the west  Senator Barack Obama holds his step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama on a visit to his ancestral rural village of Kogelo in Kenya in August 2006. Photograph: RaduThe silver-grey walls of the Godown Arts Centre, a […]

Kenya Defence Forces bomb experts arrive at the scene where 14 people were killed and 11 others injured in Soko Mbuzi, Mandera Town on July 7, 2015. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP Mandera Council of Elders have asked the government to step up security in the county over recent attacks. The elders condemned the […]

Mr Charles Mwangi from Laikipia County can only thank God after he miraculously survived a terror attack at a village in Mandera County which left 14 people dead. While speaking to the Nation on Tuesday at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), the 35 year old quarry worker said he was suddenly woken up by a loud bang […]

Suspected Al shaabab brides from left Umur Kheir, Mariam Said and Khadijah Abubakar at the Mombasa Court on Monday,030th March,2015. Kheir, a Tanzanian and the two Kenyans from Malindi were arrested by Kenyan Securities at Elwak in Mandera Border suspected to be going to join Al Shaabab group in Somalia and be used as suicide […]

Garissa County Governor Nathif Jama presented himself before the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission on Friday for processing before he is taken to court to plead to corruption charges. The governor is to be charged over allegations of irregular leasing of ambulances in his county. He was accompanied by four other governors, led by Council of […]

Bodies are loaded into a coroners van outside a condo building on Lisgar st. in Toronto on June 28, 2015 where two men were found dead after reports of gunfire this morning. For three days, Ellie Bergeron heard loud music coming from the condo next door in her West Queen West building. The party on […]

While today the mention of Somalia may conjure up images of a destitute nation run by warlords, such was not always the case. When it gained independence and the territories of British Somaliland and Italian Somalia were unified to create what we know today as Somalia, there was great optimism about the country’s political future. […]

The Somali jihadist group al-Shabab has carried out an attack in the country’s capital Mogadishu. A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a training centre for the national intelligence agency on Sunday morning. Government officials said that soldiers “foiled the attack” and at least three militants died. The militants have vowed to intensify attacks during […]

The International Monetary Fund has completed its first economic consultation on Somalia in more than 25 years, saying the economy of the nation that is rebuilding after decades of conflict grew by 3.7 percent in 2014. Somalia’s growth may lag others in the region but the government will be encouraged by the mere fact that […]

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Security forces prevented a suicide attack against a political conference in central Somalia on Thursday, killing three gunmen and the driver of a car packed with explosives, police said. The Islamist al Shabaab group, which wants to topple the Western-backed government in Mogadishu, claimed responsibility for the raid in Adado. It also […]