NAIROBI, Kenya — Sounds of heavy gunfire erupted from Nairobi’s Westgate mall Tuesday, even as authorities said they had the battlefield under control. The mall “is under the full control of govt ...

Kenyan police have named homegrown militant Islamist Mohamed Mohamud, a soft-spoken former teacher, as the alleged mastermind of the massacre of 148 people in a university in Garissa. Known also by ...

Kenya's president vowed Saturday to retaliate in the "severest way" against Somalia's Shebab Islamists after they massacred nearly 150 people in a university. Two days after the Islamist militants ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya pledged on Thursday to reinforce security measures against Somali militants as it commemorated a deadly mall attack which security analysts say led to improvements in the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — While deploring the mass starvation of members of Good News International Ministries in Malindi, officials of established churches are resisting calls for more regulation of ...

Islamist extremists linked to al Qaeda reportedly vowed Saturday to wage a war against civilians after killing 148 people at a university in Kenya. In the message reported by Reuters as a statement ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Annita Musyoka, a student who survived the Garissa University attack by militants a year ago, still hears the sound of gunshots ringing in her ears. Although she now studies far from ...

In 1950, British forces killed at least 29 civilians in one of the deadliest, but least chronicled, episodes of colonial violence in Kenya. Armed soldiers killed at least 29 civilian members of Dini ...