Kenya: Two separate attacks wound five
Suspected grenade attacks at a hotel and a refugee camp in northeastern Kenya wounded at least five people on Saturday, police said, days after a similar strike in the same region. Grenade and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in Kenya have become more frequent since it sent troops to Somalia to pursue al Shabaab insurgents … Read more
Ethio-Kenya: Border demarcation survey put on Hold
Survey to establish the location of the border between Kenya and Ethiopia has been suspended due to tensions in Turkana North. Experts and other surveyors who had started work along the border withdrew a month ago and have been unable to return due to frequent attacks by armed militiamen from Ethiopia. The latest tension has … Read more
Analysis: Why Kenyan army left Kismayo port in Al-Shabaab hands?
Highlight: Critics also point to Kismayo. Last fall the Kenyan military made it clear that the Somali seaport of Kismayo was key objective. Al Shabaab used it as a communications and supply ink to Yemen and Eritrea. It is also a pirate haven, which is no surprise, since Al Shabaab maintains close ties with Somali … Read more
Gibe III dam to be operational next year; World Bank ponders credit
Ethiopia’s Gibe III Hydropower dam will be operational by mid-2013. The Gibe III dam project, with about 1,870 MW installed power generation capacity, located in southern Ethiopia, is the biggest undertaking in the nation, second to the 6000 MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance hydropower project. The Gibe III dam project is now 55% complete, including the … Read more
Kenya: Terror suspect not Swedish rather a Swiss citizen
Highlight: The “Swedish” national who was arrested in Kenya on suspicions of having links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab turned out not to be Swedish at all but Swiss. Kenyan police had arrested what was first believed to be a Swedish national, suspected to have links with the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab, a senior … Read more
Somalia: Ethiopia commander says ‘not a problem to liberate Kismayo’
The commander of Ethiopia’s military in Somalia stated that it is not a problem for his military to capture Kismayo, a stronghold of Al Shabaab, Raido Garowe reports. On Friday, a security meeting was held in Baidoa capital of Bay region, which was attended by speaker of parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan and top military … Read more
Kenya: German terror suspect arrested
Kenyan security forces on Wednesday arrested a German convert to radical Islam, for whom a warrant was issued at the weekend, the Die Welt daily reported. The man was named as Bonn-born Ahmed Mueller. He was reportedly arrested near Naivasha, north of Nairobi, Thursday’s paper quoted a Kenyan police spokesperson as saying. However, neither the … Read more
Somalia: TFG troops captured ‘white Tanzanian’ Al-Shabaab fighter
(May 14 2012 – Garowe Online) – An alleged foreign fighter for the Al Shabaab was captured near Hosingow located in Lower Jubba region, Radio Garowe reports. Ali Bakaari, was captured near the Kenyan border, after Transitional Federal Government (TFG) troops stopped a vehicle Mr. Bakaari was in. TFG officials say the vehicle was stopped … Read more
Kenya to send home a Swedish terror suspect
A Swedish citizen, Magd Najjar, has been detained by Kenyan police on alleged links to Al-Shabaab. Kenyan media reported, citing government officials, that the Swedish was arrested after the police learnt that ‘he was [in the country] illegally and was eager to join or had joined the militant group’. According to Kenyan Police spokesman, quoted … Read more
Kenya on hunt for a German terror suspect
Kenyan police launched a major manhunt on Saturday for German citizen believed to use alias names Andreas Martin Muller and Abu Nusaibah. The man is suspected to have deep connections with terror group Al-Shabaab and also to be in possession of information on planned Al-Shabaab attacks on Kenya.. The suspect is believed to have entered … Read more
