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Kenya: Sugar Barons Financed Al Shabaab, Says Government
The Star, 27 April 2015
THE government yesterday revealed that 30 of the 86 al Shabaab financiers and/or supporters whose accounts were frozen by the government are sugar smuggler barons. Read more »
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Kenya: U.S. Freezes Assets of Two Shabaab Leaders
The Star, 23 April 2015
The United States government has frozen the assets of two senior al Shabaab leaders implicated in the April 2 Garissa University College attack in which 148 people were killed. Read more »
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Kenya: Financial Bans Hit Somali Refugees
UNIRIN, 10 April 2015
Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees are among those hardest hit by Kenya's closure of remittance firms in the wake of the 2 April shooting of at least 147 university students… Read more »
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Kenya: Aid Agencies Urge Kenya to Let Somali Remittances Resume
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 10 April 2015
Aid agencies urge Kenya to allow Somali money transfer firms to resume operations, expressing concern that halting remittances will hurt struggling families and relief operations… Read more »
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Kenya: 13 Money Transfer Firms Closed Over Links to Funding Terrorists
CIO, 8 April 2015
Money transfer companies have topped the list of 86 accounts alleged to be funding terror groups according to a gazette notice issued under Kenya's prevention of terrorism act and… Read more »
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Kenya: List of 86 People, Entities Whose Accounts Were Frozen By Kenya for Allegedly Funding Terror
The Star, 8 April 2015
Two of 86 individuals and organisations whose accounts will be frozen by the government for allegedly funding terrorism have denied the allegations. Read more »
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Kenya: Kenyan Official Confesses We Did 'Something Wrong in Garissa'
DW, 9 April 2015
One week after the Garissa massacre, the death toll is still rising. In neighboring Somalia residents are claiming they are being 'collectively punished' by Kenyan… Read more »
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Kenya: State Freezes Accounts of Suspected Al-Shabaab Funders
The Star, 7 April 2015
The government has frozen 86 accounts of individuals and entities suspected of funding terror attacks in the country. Read more »
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Somalia: Kenya Cracks Down On Somalia Financial Networks
Al Jazeera, 8 April 2015
Kenya has suspended the licences of 13 Somali remittance firms following the attack on a college in Garissa by al-Shabab fighters killing more than 200 people. Read more »
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Kenya: Human Rights Groups Haki Africa, Muhuri Accounts Frozen Over Terror Links
The Star, 8 April 2015
Muslims for Human Rights and Haki Africa are up in arms after the government froze their accounts on suspicion of financing terror. Read more »
Kenya Cracks Down On Somali Financial Networks
The government has suspended the licences of more than a dozen remittance firms after the attack on a college in Garissa by Al-Shabaab fighters - as well as frozen the accounts of scores of individuals suspected of funding the militants.
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Six men alleged to have aided Al-Shabaab militants in the killing of 147 students at the Garissa University College have been arraigned in a Nairobi court. Read more »
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The vigil came after the social media campaign meant to name the students killed in the Garissa University College attack. Read more »
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This comes after President Uhuru Kenyatta warning that the government will respond to terror and terrorists in the "severest way never seen before". Read more »
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The identification of the bodies of victims of the Garissa University attack is still underway following one of the worst massacres in the country's history. Read more »
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The Kenyan government has been hit by accusations from mainstream media after it was revealed that the security detail in Nairobi did not arrive in Garissa until some 11 hours ... Read more »
