Garissa Attack

Somalia's Shabaab terrorists have confirmed the death of a commander suspected of organising the 2015 attack on Kenya's Garissa University that left 148 people dead.

A terrorist leader who organised the April 2015 attack on Garissa University in eastern Kenya which left 148 people dead, has been killed in a raid in southwestern Somalia, a local official said Wednesday.

Somalia's Shebab militants killed three soldiers from the African Union force fighting them in Somalia today, the AU said, condemning the latest in a series of attacks by the Islamists.

All four gunmen from Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab who carried out the Kenyan university massacre earlier this month were Kenyans themselves, reports said today.

Kenya said it has asked the UN refugee agency to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees by July in the wake of the Garissa University massacre.

A Nairobi court today ordered five Kenyans and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while police investigate possible connections to last week's university massacre.

They came in their hundreds, fearful of attacks but determined to honour the victims of one of Kenya's worst ever massacres.

Pope Francis prayed for an end to the persecution of Christians in his Easter Sunday address, commemorating the students massacred by Islamist militants at Garissa University in Kenya.

The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 at a university last week, the interior ministry said on Sunday, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations.

Kenyan special forces took at least seven hours to deploy at a university massacre in which almost 150 people were killed, scathing reports said today, but security chief defended their response.

Kenyan police have named homegrown militant Islamist Mohamed Mohamud, a quietly spoken former teacher, as the alleged mastermind of the massacre of 148 people in a university in Garissa.

Kenyan police have arrested five men in connection with the university massacre of 148 people by Somalia's Shebab Islamists, the interior ministry said today, including suspected masterminds of the attack.

Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab Islamists threatened Kenyan citizens with "another bloodbath" today, two days after their gunmen slaughtered 148 people at a university.

Islamist gunmen who massacred sleeping students in Kenya's Garissa university knew what they were doing: they picked a soft target put further at risk by crippling corruption and mismanaged security, analysts say.

The death toll in an assault by Somali militants on a Kenyan university is likely to climb above 147, a government source and media said on today, as anger grew among local residents over what they say was a government failure to prevent bloodshed.

Somalia's Shabaab terrorists have confirmed the death of a commander suspected of organising the 2015 attack on Kenya's Garissa University that left 148 people dead.

A terrorist leader who organised the April 2015 attack on Garissa University in eastern Kenya which left 148 people dead, has been killed in a raid in southwestern Somalia, a local official said Wednesday.

Somalia's Shebab militants killed three soldiers from the African Union force fighting them in Somalia today, the AU said, condemning the latest in a series of attacks by the Islamists.

All four gunmen from Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab who carried out the Kenyan university massacre earlier this month were Kenyans themselves, reports said today.

Kenya said it has asked the UN refugee agency to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees by July in the wake of the Garissa University massacre.

A Nairobi court today ordered five Kenyans and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while police investigate possible connections to last week's university massacre.

They came in their hundreds, fearful of attacks but determined to honour the victims of one of Kenya's worst ever massacres.

Pope Francis prayed for an end to the persecution of Christians in his Easter Sunday address, commemorating the students massacred by Islamist militants at Garissa University in Kenya.

The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 at a university last week, the interior ministry said on Sunday, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations.

Kenyan special forces took at least seven hours to deploy at a university massacre in which almost 150 people were killed, scathing reports said today, but security chief defended their response.

Kenyan police have named homegrown militant Islamist Mohamed Mohamud, a quietly spoken former teacher, as the alleged mastermind of the massacre of 148 people in a university in Garissa.

Kenyan police have arrested five men in connection with the university massacre of 148 people by Somalia's Shebab Islamists, the interior ministry said today, including suspected masterminds of the attack.

Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab Islamists threatened Kenyan citizens with "another bloodbath" today, two days after their gunmen slaughtered 148 people at a university.

Islamist gunmen who massacred sleeping students in Kenya's Garissa university knew what they were doing: they picked a soft target put further at risk by crippling corruption and mismanaged security, analysts say.

The death toll in an assault by Somali militants on a Kenyan university is likely to climb above 147, a government source and media said on today, as anger grew among local residents over what they say was a government failure to prevent bloodshed.