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Somalia: Internal Security Minister Says Border Wall Will Not Stop Al Shabaab
Radio Dalsan, 4 June 2015
Minister for Internal security has appealed to Kenyan government to stop the construction of the wall along the border of the two neighboring countries. Read more »
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Kenya: Court Denies Four 'Al Shabaab Brides' Bail
The Star, 28 May 2015
Four women arrested by Kenya Defence Forces officers in Mandera while allegedly trying to leave the country to join Islamic State fighters in Syria have been denied bail by a… Read more »
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Kenya: Shabaab Suspect Surrenders
The Star, 8 May 2015
A suspected al-Shabaab member has surrendered to the police in Garissa county in response to the amnesty declared by the government. Read more »
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Kenya: 3,000 Men Trained By KDF Missing
The Star, 8 May 2015
An association from Northeastern wants the whereabouts of 3,000 people given paramilitary training in Manyani and Archers' Post established. Read more »
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Kenya: Al Shabaab Recruit Surrenders to Garissa Police
The Star, 7 May 2015
A 22-year-old al Shabaab recruit surrendered to police in Garissa on Thursday morning. Read more »
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Kenya: Bond for Four Terror Suspects
The Star, 7 May 2015
Four suspects detained for allegedly recruiting youths into al Shabaab were on Tuesday released on bond by a Lamu court. Read more »
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Kenya: Four Women Charged Over Shabaab Links
The Star, 7 May 2015
Four women were yesterday charged in court with being members of al Shabaab after 30 days of investigations. Read more »
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Kenya: Three to Be Charged for Joining Shabaab
The Star, 6 May 2015
Three women arrested on their way to Somalia will today be charged with being members of al Shabaab. Read more »
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Kenya: Mandera Youths Threaten to Join Al Shabaab Over Prisons Recruitment
The Star, 7 May 2015
Mandera East prison police repeated their recruitment on Thursday after youths accused them of corruption and tribalism. Read more »
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Kenya: Teenage Girl Remanded for 10 Days Over Al Shabaab Links
The Star, 6 May 2015
A form two student suspected to have links with al Shabaab will remain in custody for 10 days to allow police to complete investigations. Read more »
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Kenya: 16 Year-Old Girl Detained in Terror Probe
Capital FM, 6 May 2015
Police will detain a 16-year-old girl for 10 days to investigate fears that she had disappeared from home last year to join the Al Shabaab group. Read more »
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Kenya: Al Shabaab Suspects Get Bond
The Star, 6 May 2015
Four men charged with recruiting Lamu youths to join al Shabaab have been released on bond. Read more »
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Kenya: Terror Suspect in Wundanyi
The Star, 5 May 2015
Police have arrested a man suspected to be a member of the al Shabaab terror group. Read more »
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Kenya: Four Charged With Terror
The Star, 5 May 2015
Four men suspected of recruiting the youth to join the al Shabaab were on Monday charged at the Lamu law courts. Read more »
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Kenya: Government Names Radicalisation Hot Spots and MRC Training Grounds in Kilifi
The Star, 4 May 2015
Security personnel in Kilifi county have named hot spots where the youth is being recruited into al Shabaab and training grounds for the Mombasa Republican Council. Read more »
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Kenya: Al Shabaab 'Is a Threat' to Journalists - Lobby
The Star, 4 May 2015
Journalists in Kenya are increasingly facing death threats from militants groups and government officials. Read more »
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Kenya: Al Shabaab Recruiting in Prison,Says Bahati MP
The Star, 4 May 2015
YOUTHS are being recruited into Al shabaab while in prison, Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri has said. Read more »
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Kenya: Four Terror Suspects Linked With 'Jihad Brides'
The Star, 4 May 2015
Detectives in Mombasa have linked four terror suspects whose pictures were released on Friday with the alleged recruitment of Kenyan and Tanzanian girls into al Shabaab. Read more »
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Kenya: Expose Shabaab Recruits, Official Tells Kitui Locals
The Star, 2 May 2015
Kitui county commissioner Moffat Kangi has asked residents to name people they suspect may have been recruited into al Shabaab. Read more »
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Kenya: Senate Staffer in Terror Probe to Be Held for 10 Days
Capital FM, 28 April 2015
The Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) has obtained an order to hold Senate employee Ali Abdulmajid for 10 days as they investigate his alleged links with terrorists. Read more »
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Kenya: Two Teachers Abducted a Day After Area Chief Was Killed
The Star, 25 April 2015
Two teachers in Mandera were Friday evening kidnapped by suspected al Shabaab militia from Mandera county. Read more »
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Kenya: Sheikhs Tell Shabaab Desserters to Go to Them, Not Govt
Capital FM, 19 April 2015
A section of Muslim clerics in Eastleigh are now telling radicalised youths who are willing to desert the Al Shabaab, not to report to security agencies for amnesty as had been… Read more »
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Kenya: Al Shabaab Now Recruiting From Soccer Clubs, Says Northeastern
The Star, 16 April 2015
AL SHABAAB recruiters are no longer focusing only on mosques, schools or madrasas for recruitment - they are also headhunting on football playgrounds. Read more »
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Kenya: Countering Al-Shabaab's Narrative in Kenya's Fight Against Extremism
African Arguments, 14 April 2015
In March 2015, several months after the Kenyan coastal town of Mpeketoni and neighbouring villages were brutally attacked, the Somalia-based armed group, Al-Shabaab, released a… Read more »
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Kenya: Imam in Court for Allegedly Recruiting Youths to Al Shabaab
The Star, 11 April 2015
A Muslim cleric was on Friday arraigned in a Marsabit court on charges of recruiting youths into joining a terror group. Read more »