Death toll from Kenya’s El Nino floods jumps to 120
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Severe flooding caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon has killed 120 people in Kenya, while people in almost 90,000 households have been forced to leave their homes, the government said on Tuesday. The latest estimated death toll in Kenya has doubled as heavy seasonal rains following the worst drought in four decades […]
Al-Shabaab singles out 11 to kill in bus attack in northern Kenya; raises fear for Christians
World Watch Monitor Eleven people, almost all known to be Christians, were killed during an attack by the Islamist al-Shabaab group on a bus in Kenya’s border region with Somalia on 6th December. The militants forced the bus, owned by Medina Bus Company (which transports people and goods between Kenya’s capital Nairobi and north-east Kenya), to stop […]
GARISSA ATTACK ANNIVERSARY: “I WAS LAST TO COME OUT ALIVE” – KENYAN STUDENT TALKS ABOUT HER LIFE-CHANGING INJURIES
World Watch Monitor speaks with Reachel Ginkonyo who survived an attack targeting Christians on a university campus in north-east Kenya four years ago…
Kenyan worship leader one of two killed for failing to say Islamic prayer of faith
World Watch Monitor Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday, 14th September. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its way to Garissa, between the towns of Iljara and Sangailu, and […]
Christian teacher killed, another abducted along with Muslim in north-eastern Kenya
Morning Star News Suspected al-Shabaab militants walked into an elementary school compound in northeastern Kenya on 31st May and shot a Christian teacher to death, sources said. Elly Oloo Ojiema was shot at Fafi Primary School in Fafi, about 100 kilometres from Garissa. “The suspected al-Shabaab militants entered the school compound and right away fired […]