Police fired tear gas to disperse Kenyans who threw stones and broke into the homes and shops of ethnic Somalis in Nairobi's Somali-dominated Eastleigh neighbourhood on Monday to protest against a bomb attack in the district on Sunday.Many Kenyans blamed Somalis for the blast. Police said on Monday that at least nine people were killed on Sunday when a bomb tore through a minibus in the Nairobi district...
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NAIROBI: Kenyan police fired bullets and tear gas in downtown Nairobi on Monday in an effort to stop rioters from fighting with ethnic Somalis one day after an improvised explosive device ripped through a bus and killed nine people.The fighting exposes increasing tensions between the sizable ethnic Somali-Kenyan community and Kenyan groups with no ties to Somalia. Tensions have been rising over the...
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Nairobi: Officials in Kenya say Somali gunmen have kidnapped two Western aid workers in northern Somalia.The man and the woman were working for the Danish Demining Group when they were seized in northern Somalia. One Nairobi-based official said the workers were American and Danish.A second official confirmed Tuesday's kidnappings but did not know their nationalities.The Nairobi-based officials spoke...
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NAIROBI, KENYA : More than a dozen people were injured on early Monday morning when a grenade exploded at a local bar in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, allegedly thrown by the Somali Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab.The attack took place at around 2 a.m. local time on Monday when a grenade was thrown at the Mwuara Pub located off Mfangano street in Nairobi. Fourteen people were injured as a result...
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Nairobi: Kenyan police said Monday they have arrested four people in connection with grenade attacks that killed six people in Nairobi, which Kenya blames on supporters of Somali Shebab insurgents."On the Al-Shebab threats and attacks at the Machakos busterminus, four highly suspected criminals were arrested andare undergoing intensive interrogation," Nairobi ProvincialPolice chief Antony Kibuchi said.Six...
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Human rights activists say Somalis in Kenya are facing increased attacks from gangs and harassment from the police since the government issued an order that all Somali refugees should return to a camp.Ten rights groups Tuesday said in a statement that since the December 18 announcement criminal gangs have aggravated xenophobic attitudes toward genuine Somali refugees and asylum...
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saw the car carrying the foreigners leaving their office and the next minute I heard gunshots and two cars moving at very high speed through the town" Nurto Gibril.NAIROBI: A US aid worker and two colleagues have been kidnapped by Somali gunmen in the Somali region of Puntland.Three staff members from the Danish Refugee Council - a US woman, a Danish man and a Somali man contracted to a landmine clearance...
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — While tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue, according to a report by a former Somali government official.The whistleblowing report shines a light on chaotic and secretive financial dealings and says the Somali government did not explain how the $58 million...
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of Ethiopian troops poured into a western Somalia border town on Saturday, opening a new front against the militant groupsaid hundreds of residents fled Beledweyne on Saturday after hundreds of Ethiopian and Somali troops moved in. Capt. Hashi Nor of the Somali military confirmed that Somali and Ethiopian troops had moved in."I saw Ethiopian troops standing at the doors...
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blast in a Somali area of the Kenyan capital Nairobi has killed at least one person and wounded others, police say.The man killed had been the person carrying the explosives, a Kenyan police spokesman said.Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa have suffered a series of grenade attacks since Kenya sent troops into Somalia last October to battle the Islamist group al-Shabab.The explosion occurred in the...
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