Kenya`s military spokesman names Nairobi Mall attackers

Last Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 23:31

A military spokesman on Saturday confirmed the names of the four fighters implicated in the attack on the upscale Westgate Mall in Kenya`s capital last month, an assault that turned into a four-day-long siege, killing at least 67 people.

Riots break out in Kenya; four dead, church torched

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 20:21

Four rioters died and a church was torched amid gunfire on Friday, as police in Kenya`s port city of Mombasa quashed protests sparked by the killing of a Muslim cleric.

Youths burn church, riot in Kenya`s Mombasa after imam killed

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 19:23

Young Muslims set fire to church, burned tires and clashed with police in Kenya`s main port city of Mombasa on Friday, after the killing of an Islamic cleric his followers blamed on security forces.

More bodies to be retrieved from Nairobi mall

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 16:51

Investigators in Kenya said they were expecting to retrieve more bodies from the Westgate shopping mall which was stormed by terrorists Sep 21 leaving over 60 people dead and dozens injured.

Nairobi mall attack: Kenya President orders probe into security loopholes

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 09:54

In the aftermath of the deadly Kenya Westgate mall attack, President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered an investigation to probe if the hostage crisis could have been dealt with more efficiently.

Nairobi morgue`s last Kenya mall victim ID`d

Last Updated: Monday, September 30, 2013, 16:37

Karen Wambui walked slowly through the Nairobi city morgue`s turquoise and yellow iron gates, still trying to process what she had seen inside.

Nairobi terror attack: One more gunman arrested, says Kenyan Interior Minister

Last Updated: Sunday, September 29, 2013, 21:13

Almost a week after al-Shabab militants attacked a mall, Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku on Sunday refused to talk on the issue that warnings of an impending attack on Westgate mall were given a year back.

The Jains, silent heroes of Nairobi mall attack response

Last Updated: Sunday, September 29, 2013, 13:05

As a jihadist commando sowed death and horror inside Westgate mall last week, Nairobi`s Jains became the silent heroes of the days-long emergency effort.

Pressure mounts on government over Nairobi attack

Last Updated: Sunday, September 29, 2013, 01:09

Pressure mounted on the Kenyan authorities a week after the Nairobi mall carnage, amid questions over the fate of the missing and accusations on Saturday that top brass failed to heed security warnings.

Kenya govt had been warned of mall attack, says security sources

Last Updated: Saturday, September 28, 2013, 19:56

Kenya`s government had been warned, including by Israel, of the high risk of an attack before the deadly assault on a Nairobi mall by Islamist gunmen, security sources said on Saturday.

Kenya searches for missing week after mall attack

Last Updated: Saturday, September 28, 2013, 15:18

Kenyans on Saturday marked a week since Islamist gunmen stormed a Nairobi mall in an attack that shocked the nation, but confusion remained over the fate of 61 people still reported missing.

Kenya vows no Somalia pullout after Shabab attack

Last Updated: Saturday, September 28, 2013, 12:27

Kenya has vowed not to bow to Shabab threats of more attacks if troops are not pulled out of Somalia, following a devastating mall attack in Nairobi by the al Qaeda-linked insurgents.