Tag Archives: Eastleigh
Refugees who once fled to Kenya for safety claim extortion and threats rife since government ordered them to move to camps. Clar Ni Chonghaile in Eastleigh,guardian.co.uk, A police officer disperses rioters in the Eastleigh district of Nairobi in November. Skirmishes … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya
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Tagged Africa news, Al-Shabaab, Dadaab, Eastleigh, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenyan, Nairobi, Somali, Somali people
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Two people have been injured in two blasts in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, according to local media. The blasts, in quick succession, happened outside Al Amin mosque in the Somali-dominated Eastleigh district of the capital Nairobi during the evening rush hour on Wednesday, police … read more »
Two people were seriously injured when at least three grenades were lobbed towards a bar in the predominantly Somali neighbourhood of Eastleigh in the Kenyan capital Nairobi late Sunday, police said. “Two people were injured in the blasts. They have … read more »
One person has been killed and eight others wounded in a blast in a mainly Somali neighbourhood in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, police say. A roadside bomb exploded during rush hour traffic in the Eastleigh neighbourhood on Wednesday evening, police said. … read more »
A suspected remote-controlled bomb tore through a predominantly Somali neighborhood in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, wounding up to nine people during the evening rush hour. Ambulance sirens wailed through the city’s congested streets and a Reuters witness at … read more »
“Bomb them like Gaza”, a Kenyan Facebooker rants. “Wipe them out, that’s the only solution”, another raves. “If you rattle a snake, be prepared to be bitten by it”, another sheepishly quotes an already nauseating absurdity once brayed out by … read more »
Posted in Article, Kenya, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Eastleigh, Garissa, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenyan, Nairobi, Somali, Somali people
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Catherine Wambua-Soi Twenty-one victims from Sunday’s explosion of a minibus in Nairobi’s Somali-dominated Eastleigh suburb popularly known as “little Mogadishu” are still recuperating at the country’s main hospital, Kenyatta national hospital. I went to visit them. They had head, arm … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Kenya, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Eastleigh, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, kenya news, Kenyan Somali, Nairobi, Somali, somali news, Somali people, Somalia
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“…What does (Kenya) want to achieve from the incursion, knowing that the Ethiopia invasion created Al-Shabaab, the opposite of what was expected? Who can guarantee the invasion would not reinvigorate Somali nationalism hence energising radicalism that might even engulf the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Kenya, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Eastleigh, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenyan, kenyan news, Nairobi, Somali, somali news, Somali people, Somalia
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Kenyan police fired tear gas to disperse rioters who attacked ethnic Somalis in the Nairobi district known as “Little Mogadishu” on Monday, hurling rocks and smashing windows after a weekend bomb attack there killed nine people. The violence coincided with … read more »
December 6, 2010 by benim
Kenyan police have arrested 346 foreigners in Nairobi in a major operation after two separate grenade and gun attacks last week killed three policemen, officers said on Monday. In the first attack, unidentified men lobbed a grenade into a police … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, East Africa, Kenya, News
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Tagged Africa news, African countries, African Union member states, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaa, Anthony Kibuchi, disasters-news, East Africa news, Eastleigh, Federal Bureau of Investigation, geography, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenya Police, Mogadishu, Nairobi, Somalia, timeline of the War in Somalia, War Conflict
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