Category: Kenya

  • Interview with Human Right Watch: Kenya’s summary deportation of Somali nationals

    Interview with Human Right Watch: Kenya’s summary deportation of Somali nationals

    Nairobi (HAN) April, 2014 – Foreign donors to Kenya and UNHCR should vigorously and publicly oppose summary deportations of Somalis, Human Rights Watch said. Mr Gerry Simpson, senior refugee researcher and advocate for Human Rights Watch during the launch of a report on the plight of refugees in Kenya. “Kenya’s summary deportation of Somali nationals should…

  • Kenyan Security forces targeting Ethnic Somali Refugees for Deportation

    Kenyan Security forces targeting Ethnic Somali Refugees for Deportation

    Djibouti (HAN) April 17, 2014 – The majority of ninety one illegal aliens deported to Somalia were Somali, after Kenyan security forces found to be in Kenya illegally in the ongoing security operation to minimize Somali elements that ties Al-Shabaab militant groups, according to the IGAD2020 Regional Security Watch. Kenyan security forces in Nairobi since…

  • Kenya: Somali Kenyans are treated like second-class citizens

    Kenya: Somali Kenyans are treated like second-class citizens

    Nairobi (HAN) April 13, 2014 – The same question remains unresolved despite the collective national pretense that all Kenyans are equal, writes Ahmednasir Abdullahi. There is a great urgency for President Uhuru Kenyatta to call for a national convention to determine once and for all the fate of Kenyan Somalis in Kenya. Are Kenyan Somalis Shiftas…

  • Somali challenges of growing up In Kenya: committing serious human rights violations

    Somali challenges of growing up In Kenya: committing serious human rights violations

    Nairobi (HAN) April 11, 2014 – Kenyan secret police and other illegal security agencies should stop arbitrary arrests and detentions, extortion, and other abuses against Somalis during security operations, Human Rights Watch said today. There have been numerous credible accounts of Kenyan security forces extorting money and beating Somali people ethnicaly during the arrests and…

  • Somalia: Kenya’s anti-terror (anti-Somali) strategy begins to emerge

    Somalia: Kenya’s anti-terror (anti-Somali) strategy begins to emerge

    Nairobi (HAN) April 10, 2014 – It’s precisely a year to the day since the Jubilee alliance took control of Kenya’s government under a cloud of controversy over a flawed election and uncertainty about how the world would respond to a government led by suspected war criminals. At the time, the President, Uhuru Kenyatta, and…

  • Somalia: Kenyan Refugees and Diaspora Deported to Mogadishu

    Somalia: Kenyan Refugees and Diaspora Deported to Mogadishu

    Mogadishu (HAN) April 9, 2014 – Dozens of Somali refugees were expelled from Kenyan capital nairobi yesterday, Ambassador Ali America told HAN & Geeska Afrika Online security Corespondent in Mogadishu, Somalia, as the Kenyan security forces maintained a major crackdown on suspected Al-Shabaab militants, that cost Somali diaspora kenya-thousands rounded up throughout the Kenyan cities.…

  • Somalia: Several African peacekeepers were killed

    Somalia: Several African peacekeepers were killed

    Kismayo (HAN) April 9, 2014 – Several African Union (AU) peacekeepers and civilians were killed and many others injured when a roadside bomb exploded outside an AU military base in the southern port town of Kismayo, the capital of Jubaland Authority, according to Juba administration official Abdinasir Seerar. “We are not sure yet about how…

  • Somalia: Reasons Kenya forces not pulling out of Southern Somalia

    Somalia: Reasons Kenya forces not pulling out of Southern Somalia

    Mogadishu (HAN) April 3, 2014: Kenyan military, security and intelligence forces will not pull out of Southern Somalia, According to Raychelle Omamo, Defence Cabinet Secretary , statistics says that Kenyan military ranking worldwide put KDF as the sixth best in Africa and 46 globally; while Kenya came sixth after Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria and…

  • Kenya: Killers Kill again in Somali Kenyan Market zone in Nairobi

    Kenya: Killers Kill again in Somali Kenyan Market zone in Nairobi

    Mogadishu (HAN) March 31, 2014 – The National police Officials in Nairobi, Kenya say that an explosion in downtown Nairobi has killed at least five people. The National Disaster Operation Center said that explosions had occurred in a neighborhood known for its large Somali population. Sometimes called Kenya’s “Little Mogadishu,” Eastleigh has seen several grenade…

  • Kenya: Kenyan Police Raided Islamist Sufi center in Mombasa

    Kenya: Kenyan Police Raided Islamist Sufi center in Mombasa

    Nairobi (HAN) March 18, 2014 – Kenya police force has raided a well-known Sufi center at MacKinnon Road, a town in Kenya. The city is famous for its Sufi saint’s burial places. The prominent 20th century Sufi saints and shiekhs buried at MacKinnon include Seyyid Baghali Ali Shah who is the first saint buried in…

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