List of Kenya articles
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A home guard walks through a Mandera suburb late at night. Many homeguards chew the local stimulant khat to stay alert. Hiking the ‘Rat Tracks,’ Hunting for al-Shabab
Meet the khat-chewing, rifle-toting volunteer army that forms Kenya’s first line of defense against the Somali terrorist group.
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Kenyan riot police officers hold batons as they detain a suspected supporter of the Kenya's opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), during a protest on May 16, 2016 in Nairobi, outside the headquarters of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). Opposition protestors led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga gathered outside the Indepedent Electoral and Boundaries Comission building to demand the dismissal of IEBC commissioners, after alleged bias towards the ruling Jubillee Alliance Party. / AFP / CARL DE SOUZA (Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) Watch: New Footage Shows Kenyan Police Beating Political Protesters
Police cracked down Monday on protestors railing against Kenya's election oversight body.
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Elephants troop to a water hole at the Amboseli national reserve November 13, 2015 at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The first delegation of the China-Africa Wildlife Ambassadors (CAWA) drawn from some of China's media corporations including JC Decaux China, iFENG.com, Beijing MTR Corporation, Shenzhen Press Group, Fulong Media and DEEP magazine arrived in Kenya as part of China's strategy to use iconic members of society to speak up against ivory trade and mobilizing society to stigmatize ivory consumption. In September this year, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced that China will take significant and timely steps to halt the domestic commercial trade of ivory thought to spur, on average, a killing of an elephant every 15 minutes for its ivory accirding to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) The Other Reason Africa’s Elephants Are Dying
Kenya is trying its best to deter illegal poachers, but revenge killings by farmers and herdsmen are often the bigger problem.
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A Kenyan police officer folds up a flag inscribed with the logo of the Islamic state (IS) following a raid on two mosques in the coastal city of Mombasa, on November 17, 2014. One man was killed as Kenyan security forces arrested over 200 people and seized weapons in raids on mosques accused of links with Somalia's Al-Qaeda affiliated Shebab militants, police said. Security forces began the operation in the early hours of Monday morning, targeting the Masjid Musa and Sakina mosques in the port city of Mombasa. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images) Foiled Kenya Anthrax Plot Hints At Islamic State’s Scramble For Africa
Outmaneuvered by al-Shabab in Somalia, is the Islamic State gunning for a comeback next door?
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A woman attends a Musical concert in honour of the victims of the attack on Garissa University College in downtown Nairobi on April 14, 2015. The massacre, claimed by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents on a university campus in Kenya's nothern town of Garissa, claimed the lives of 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers at the university in the northeastern town of Garissa. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images) Je Ne Suis Pas Garissa
One year after al-Shabab killed 147 people in cold blood, the Kenyan government has turned its back on the university where it happened.
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Police officers control a crowd near the scene of the inspection of a vehicle suspected to be packed with explosives on April 24, 2014 in Nairobi's Somali district of Eastleigh a day after another car bomb was detonated killing two police officers at a nearby police station. Following a tip-off from the public, bomb experts set about inspecting the vehicle which they said bore signs of having been used to transport a large load, possibly an explosive device, before towing it away for further forensic inspection. At least four people, including two policemen, were killed on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in Nairobi near a major Somali neighbourhood. AFP PHOTO / Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) Kenya’s Vicious War Against Its Youth
Security forces say they're targeting terrorists, but it's young people who keep dying. Why do so few Kenyans seem to care?
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A security officer stands guard at the entrance of Garissa university college on January 11, 2016 after it re-opened following a deadly siege by four gunmen at dawn nine months ago. Students trickled back on January 11, 2016 for classes at the Garissa campus in north eastern Kenya amid high security after a deadly siege by four gunmen on April 2, 2015. At least 148 people, mainly students were killed. The high-profile assault of Garissa university college was the deadliest yet in Kenya by the Somali-led, Al-Qaeda linked Shebab islamists group. / AFP / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) School Is Back in Session in Garissa, for Now
The university targeted by al-Shabab last year has reopened. Will Kenya's softer, gentler approach to counterterrorism keep it safe?
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GettyImages-472571766 crop Reimagining the Refugee Camp
The world’s refugee camps are a mess, and they’ve long outlived their intended lifespans. It’s time for a change.
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An injured student is brought to the casualty room in Nairobi west hospital after gunshots were heard at Strathmore University, Nairobi on November 30, 2015. More than 14 students were injured after trying to escape from the University campus building during an emergency drill. Witnesses say they heard the blasts and several gunshots which made students run and take cover. In the process several students were injured. Some students were reported to have jumped from the fourth floor of their classroom building. AFP PHOTO/JOHN MUCHUCHA / AFP / John Muchucha (Photo credit should read JOHN MUCHUCHA/AFP/Getty Images) When a Terrorism Drill Turns Deadly
What was supposed to be a drill to prepare Kenyan students for a terrorist attack turned into a panicked frenzy in Nairobi Monday.
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Militia allied with the Federal Government of Somalia and Kenyan Defence force soldiers walk through a charcoal loading area in Burgabo, Southern Somalia on December 14, 2011. Burgabo is a Somalian port village which has been secured by Kenyan forces as they advance further up the Somali coastline in search of Al-Shabaab fighters. AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza (Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) Report: Kenyan Military ‘in Business’ With Al-Shabab
NAIROBI — A new report says Kenya’s military has done a brisk business in sugar and charcoal in Kismayo, Somalia, but the trade has become a key financial lifeline for al-Shabab, the terrorist group it is there to fight.
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Tents fill the outskirts of Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex on July 24, 2011. The United Nations refugee agency estimates Dadaab is receiving 1,300 new arrivals each day, adding to the numbers in the already drastically overpopulated camp. Dadaab was opened twenty years ago, with a capacity of 90,000 people. Current estimates place the refugee population here at around 380,000 people. The European Union aid commissioner vowed yesterday to do all that is possible to help 12 million people struggling from extreme drought across the Horn of Africa, boosting aid by 27.8 million euros ($40 million). AFP PHOTO/PHIL MOORE (Photo credit should read PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images) Kenya Just Accused the U.N. of Aiding Terrorists
Here’s why that’s totally outrageous.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers What Are Africa’s New Missionaries Peddling?
2014 Global Thinker and visual artist Sam Hopkins joins FP contributor Michela Wrong to discuss the aid industry's skewed view of East Africa — and how artists can offer a better picture.
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An Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) official carries closed ballot boxes to be counted in Mombasa on March 5, 2013. Kenyans nervously eyed results today, trickling in a day after they turned out peacefully en masse for critical presidential elections, the first since disputed polls five years ago triggered election violence. AFP PHOTO/Ivan Lieman (Photo credit should read Ivan Lieman/AFP/Getty Images) Fool’s Errand
Why do Western countries keep funding corrupt elections in Africa?
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The reconstructed remains of Pan Am flight 103 lie in a warehouse on January 15, 2008 in Farnborough, England. The Air Accident Investigation Branch have housed the remains of the Boeing 747 for the past 19 years. 20 years ago a terrorist bomb exploded on-board destroying the aircraft over the Scottish town of Lockerbie killing 270 people including 11 people on the ground. Longform’s Picks of the Week
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Westgate_Cover1 ‘Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Be Dead’
What really happened two years ago in the bloody attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall.
