Tag: Nairobi

Kenyan worship leader one of two killed for failing to say Islamic prayer of faith

September 18, 2018 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi

Security forces guard the Garissa University College after Al-Shabaab militants killed at last 147 students here in an attack in April 2015. (Photo: Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday, 14 September. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its way to Garissa, between the towns of Iljara and . . . Read More

Kenya: engaged couple killed, together with fellow primary school teacher, by suspected Al-Shabaab attackers

February 21, 2018 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Boni, Catholics, East Africa, Education, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Lamu, Mandera, Nairobi, Somalia, Wajir

After the coldblooded murder of three Christian teachers – including a couple soon to be married – in north-eastern Kenya by suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen, fear is growing that the Islamist militant group is targeting education, and its proponents, in the predominantly Muslim region. Seth Oluoch Odada and Kevin Shari were . . . Read More

Film showing Muslims protecting Christians nominated for Oscar

January 25, 2018 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Lamu, Mandera, Nairobi, Tana River

One of the attackers in a still from the movie.

A short film about a bus attack during which Muslims protected Christians, while travelling from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to Mandera in the north-east, has been nominated for an Oscar, the BBC reports. The film, ‘Watu Wote’ (All of us), is one of the five nominees for an award in . . . Read More

UPDATE: Four police officers charged with killing Christian lawyer in Kenya

July 18, 2016 Kenya Nairobi, Police, Uhuru Kenyatta

Willie Kimani (centre), his client, Josephat Mwenda (left), and their driver, Joseph Muiruri (right).IJM UPDATE (18 July): A court in Nairobi has charged four police officers in connection with the murder of a lawyer and two of his companions. Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda and their driver, Joseph Muiruri, went . . . 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

Muslim who protected Christians dies of wounds

January 20, 2016 Kenya Islamic extremism, Kenya, Nairobi

Salah Farah took several bullets in December when he refused to obey gunmen who ordered him and all other Muslims off a bus in Kenya. He would not leave the Christians on the bus alone to be slaughtered. Nearly a month later, in a Nairobi hospital, Farah died of his wounds, . . . 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

Muslims defend Christians from Islamist attack

December 21, 2015 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi, Somalia

Kenyan Muslims defended Christians during an attack by Islamist gunmen on a bus near the Somali border, the . A local governor told Kenyan media Muslims had told the attackers to “kill them together or leave them alone”. At least two people were killed in the attack, however, near the . . . Read More

Pope in Africa says conflict ‘feeds on fear, mistrust and despair’

November 26, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country African Union, Al-Mourabitoun, Al-Shabaab, Bamako, Central African Republic, Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Kampala, Kenya, Nairobi, Nicolas Guérékoyamé-Gbangou, Oumar Kobine Layama, PK5, Pope Francis, Uganda, Westgate

For his first trip to Africa, Pope Francis is visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic (CAR), from 25-30 November. The three countries all have predominantly Christian populations – Kenya about 80%, Uganda 85% and CAR 76% – with about 10% or so Muslim in each of them. But . . . Read More

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