Tag: Garissa

African mission leader searches for positives despite deadly surge of jihadist violence

May 30, 2017 Africa, Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, Europe, Garissa, Gloria Argoti, Islamic extremism, Ivory Coast, Jeff Woodke, Ken Elliott, Lagos, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia

Attacks attributed to radical Islamic groups are happening on a weekly, or even daily, basis in Africa, posing security concerns across a vast swathe of the continent. The phenomenon has dramatically affected Church activities in various regions. But Rev. Reuben E. Ezemadu, Coordinator of the Movement for African National Initiatives . . . Read More

‘I wish I could forget’: student survivors of Kenya university attack, 2 years on

March 31, 2017 Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya

Two years ago, on the eve of Good Friday, 2015, Al Shabaab militants besieged Garissa University campus in Kenya’s volatile northeast. 147 students died that day. Muslims were spared, but Christians targetted: the attackers killed all students present at an early morning Christian prayer meeting, and hunted down several more hiding in rooms. Survivors . . . Read More

Al-Shabaab claims killing of 6 Christians in northeast Kenya raid

October 6, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Mandera

The six people killed in this morning’s attack in north-east Kenya by Al-Shabaab were Christians, according to the militant group’s own radio station, Radio Andalus. The militia attacked at about 2:45am this morning, 6 October. It reports that the grenade and gun attack on a residential compound in Mandera, on . . . Read More

Kenyan pastor killed after running peace workshop

July 5, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi, Somalia

A pastor was among the six people killed when gunmen attacked two buses on Friday in Kenya’s north-eastern region of Mandera, near the Somalia border. Pastor John Njaramba Kiruga, was returning home from facilitating a training on pursuing peace between Christian and Muslims in Garissa and Mandera, a volatile region where . . . Read More

At least six killed in bus attack in NE Kenya

July 1, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi, Somalia

At least six people were killed as gunmen attacked two buses on Friday in Kenya’s north-eastern region of Mandera, near the Somalia border. The identity of the assailants is not yet known, but attacks carried out by Al Shabaab are frequent in that volatile region. In November 2014, a bus . . . Read More

Garissa mastermind ‘killed’ in raid

June 2, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Somalia

The suspected mastermind behind the Garissa University attack in April 2015, when , has been killed, according to Somalia’s security minister. The Kenyan government put up a $215,000 reward for Mohamed Kuno’s capture after the Garissa attack. He was reportedly killed during a raid in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo. . . . Read More

Kenyans mourn 147 victims on anniversary of Garissa attack

April 4, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Somalia

UPDATE (4 April) Memorial events were held in Kenya on Saturday (2 April), as Kenyans marked the anniversary of the day Al-Shabaab militants stormed the University campus in Garissa – in Kenya’s volatile east, near the Somalia border – and slaughtered 147* mostly Christian students. A tree-planting ceremony and procession took . . . Read More

Can Garissa ever recover after mass killing?

January 12, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Nairobi

A journalist, who was profoundly affected when he reported from Kenya’s Garissa University College after 148 students died, has returned since to see if life can ever be the same for Garissa. The , from Garissa, describes how what he saw during the April 2015 attack by Al-Shabaab militant Islamists caused him . . . Read More

Kenyan imam jailed for radicalising children

January 8, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mombasa

A Kenyan imam has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for radicalising children. Salim Mohamed Wabwire, who converted from Christianity to Islam, taught children that Christians should be killed, . However, Wabwire, a primary school teacher and imam at a village mosque near Mombasa, was not found guilty of . . . Read More

Kenyan university reopens 9 months after massacre

January 4, 2016 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya

Kenya’s Garissa University has reopened nine months after a Somalian Islamist group attacked the campus and killed 148 students, . Many by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab gunmen in what was the deadliest attack on Kenyan soil since the US Embassy bombings in 1998. Police have established a post on the campus . . . Read More

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