Mohammed Yusuf NAIROBI? Security forces in Kenya have been blamed for an unorganized response to last year#39;s militant attacks on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, and for failing to heed securi...

NAIROBI, Kenya ? Kenya's police chief asked residents Saturday to be quot;extra vigilantquot; of attacks in the week following Sunday's anniversary of the Westgate Mall attack. David Kimaiyo said polic...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Special Representative in Somalia, Mr. Nicholas Kay, has welcomed the recovery of the port city of Barawe from Al-Shabaab fighters, the first time it has been in Somali control...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) ? The New York-based press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ), has expressed ''grave concern'' over the continued detention of three journalists in Somali...

Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say.

Somalia port of Barawe, considered key stronghold of al-Shabaab Islamists, captured by...

[Shabelle]Mogadisho -Heavily armed Somalia National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) forces picked Mohamed Bashir Hashi, news editor of Shabelle Radio station, from his home, Saturday, in a sequ...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has nominated a new intelligence chief with experience in the war on al Qaeda-linked insurgents in neighbouring Somalia....

The manager of a radio station in Somalia tells the BBC he is in hiding after the authorities took it off air, accusing it of spreading hate messages.

[IRIN]Mombasa -More than 21 Islamic clerics have been gunned down in Kenya's southeastern port city of Mombasa over the past two years, according to the human rights group Haki Africa. All but one of t...