16.05.2012 - Source:BBC News 

"One dead in attack on Mombasa nightclub"

Mombasa: One person killed and 5 injured after grenades were thrown by armed men into a nightclub, say police [ID 216826]

04.05.2012 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Criminal Reprisals; Kenyan Police and Military Abuses against Ethnic Somalis"

Report on human rights abuses against ethnic Somalis committed by Kenyan security forces (abuses in Garissa, Mandera, and Wajir; police abuses against Somali refugees in Dadaab; response of the authorities) [ID 215715]

02.05.2012 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"KENYA: Rights groups oppose move to sideline ICC"

The government moved to have the cases of 4 people charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) transferred to a region tribunal [ID 215612]

29.04.2012 - Source:BBC News 

"Nairobi church struck in grenade attack"

Nairobi: According to police, at least one person has been killed and 10 injured in a suspected grenade attack on the church God House of Miracle Church; so far no one claimed responsibility for the attack [ID 215277]

29.04.2012 - Source:ReliefWeb 

"Grenade blast sows chaos at Nairobi church, one dead" , Author: Agence France-Presse

Nairobi: A man set off a grenade during a church service at the God's House of Miracles Church; one person was killed and about 15 others were injured [ID 215567]

27.04.2012 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Kenya: Local Judicial Mechanism Should Complement ICC Cases"

Article on Kenya's cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in cases relating to the 2007-2008 post-election violence, while establishing a local judicial mechanism to investigate and prosecute other suspects [ID 215194]

25.04.2012 - Source:US Agency for International Development 

"Horn of Africa - Drought; Fact Sheet #20, Fiscal Year (FY) 2012"

Brief report on humanitarian situation (key developments; security, humanitarian access and displacement; food security and livelihoods; health and nutrition; humanitarian assistance) [ID 215306]

25.04.2012 - Source:BBC News 

"Top Kenyan judges declared 'unfit for office'"

4 senior judges have been declared unfit for office by a new committee investigating the impartiality of the judiciary [ID 215011]

25.04.2012 - Source:Reuters

"UN to open new Kenya camp for Sudan refugees" , Author: AlertNet

Northern Kenya: The UN will open a new refugee camp to shelter a possible influx of Sudanese and South Sudanese fleeing escalating conflict between their countries [ID 215070]

24.04.2012 - Source:BBC News 

"Deadly Kenya separatist protests"

Mombasa: One protester killed during clashes between police and a group which wants independence for the Coast region around Mombasa; police disperses group of protesters from Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) using teargas [ID 214920]

21.04.2012 - Source:BBC News 

"Kenya rangers shoot dead five suspected poachers"

West Pokot county: Wildlife rangers have shot dead 5 suspected ivory poachers during a gun battle; 2 rangers were injured [ID 214556]

20.04.2012 - Source:ReliefWeb 

"Conflict trends (no.1): real-time analysis of African political violence, April 2012" , Author: Armed Conflict Location and Events

Brief report on regional conflict trends in Sahel belt and East Africa (political violence in Sudan and South Sudan; Al-Shabaab guerrilla tactics in Somalia; rise in violence in Nigeria, ethnic militias in Kenya) [ID 215826]

11.04.2012 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"KENYA: Overcoming cultural obstacles to girls' education in Dadaab"

Dadaab refugee camp: Article on girls attending school; early and forced marriage, as well as child labour, are obstacles to girls' education [ID 213536]

05.04.2012 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"Sudanese influx strains Kakuma refugee camp"

Aid agencies, including UNHCR, fear that absorption capacities of Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya will soon be exhausted; refugees are fleeing violence in Sudan and South Sudan in large numbers [ID 213135]

03.04.2012 - Source:US Agency for International Development 

"Horn of Africa - Drought; Fact Sheet #19, Fiscal Year (FY) 2012"

Brief report on humanitarian situation (key developments; security, humanitarian access and displacement; food security and livelihoods; health and nutrition; humanitarian assistance) [ID 215309]

02.04.2012 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"KENYA: Abdi Adan," Right now, I am a beggar with no home""

Article on an ethnic Somali living in Isiolo region whose life has been affected by clashes between Borana, Somali and Turkana communities [ID 213014]

02.04.2012 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"Several thousand displaced after fresh clashes in Isiolo"

Isiolo county: Hundreds of families displaced after clashes between different ethnic communities of Borana, Somali and Turkana people [ID 213087]

01.04.2012 - Source:ReliefWeb 

"One dead, 18 wounded in Kenya attacks: Red Cros" , Author: Agence France-Presse

At least one killed and 14 injured in attack on church in Mtwapa; 2 civilians and one police officer injured in attack on restaurant in Mombasa [ID 213484]

30.03.2012 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Kenya: Somalia Unsafe for Refugees to Return"

Kenyan officials have called for Somali refugees to go back to Somalia; ongoing fighting and abuses against civilians in areas controlled by Kenyan forces and allied militias still pose a grave threat to civilians [ID 212932]

27.03.2012 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"KENYA: Many sex workers are married, new report reveals"

According to a new report, 40 percent of female and male commercial sex workers are married or live in a stable partnership [ID 212940]

23.03.2012 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"I never regret being in Dadaab"

Series of abductions and road-side bombs in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya threatens security of 463,000 Somali refugees since November 2011; Kenyan police suspects Al-Shabaab group to be responsible [ID 212506]

21.03.2012 - Source:BBC News 

"Judith Tebbutt: UK hostage kidnapped in Kenya freed"

Judith Tebbutt, a British woman kidnapped in an armed raid in Kenya 6 months ago, in which her husband was shot dead, is freed after being held in Somalia [ID 212432]

20.03.2012 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"Conflict fears as wildfires destroy pasture, cause displacement"

Rising fears of conflict between pastoralist communities after wildfires destroy large parts of grassland in the north amid an already serious food security crisis [ID 212264]

20.03.2012 - Source:Refugees International 

"Somali Refugees: Ongoing Crisis, New Realities"

Brief report on Somali refugees in Kenya and Ethiopia and on the possibilities of a voluntary return regarding the security and food situation in Somalia [ID 212458]

19.03.2012 - Source:Reuters

"Kenya's rural women shift to climate-resistant jobs" , Author: AlertNet

Article on women working in agriculture; a new constitution came into force in August 2010 allowing women equal access to land [ID 212545]