Garissa Massacre

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.

Kenya said today it may deploy as many as 10,000 police officers to boost security during a visit by Pope Francis later this month as the country readies for crowds of one million people.

A US drone strike in Somalia has killed four senior members of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab, including the alleged mastermind of the Garissa University massacre in Kenya in April, a Kenyan interior ministry spokesman said Thursday.

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.

One Kenyan student died and more than 100 others were injured after an exploding electricity transformer caused a stampede today, in a sign of high tensions a week after gunmen stormed another university campus, officials said.

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.

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.

The Cairo-based top Sunni Muslim body Al-Azhar on Saturday condemned the massacre of nearly 150 people at Kenya's Garissa University by Somalia's Shebab Islamists.

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.

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 number killed in Kenya's university massacre rose to 148 people, Kenya's interior minister said today as he declared operations to recover bodies over.

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.

Kenya said today it may deploy as many as 10,000 police officers to boost security during a visit by Pope Francis later this month as the country readies for crowds of one million people.

A US drone strike in Somalia has killed four senior members of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab, including the alleged mastermind of the Garissa University massacre in Kenya in April, a Kenyan interior ministry spokesman said Thursday.

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.

One Kenyan student died and more than 100 others were injured after an exploding electricity transformer caused a stampede today, in a sign of high tensions a week after gunmen stormed another university campus, officials said.

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.

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.

The Cairo-based top Sunni Muslim body Al-Azhar on Saturday condemned the massacre of nearly 150 people at Kenya's Garissa University by Somalia's Shebab Islamists.

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.

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 number killed in Kenya's university massacre rose to 148 people, Kenya's interior minister said today as he declared operations to recover bodies over.