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Kenya Travel Advice Update

apofeed — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 17:16:29 +0000

LONDON, United-Kingdom, July 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The FCO has changed its travel advice to Kenya to advise against all but essential travel to Lamu County and those areas of Tana River County north of the Tana River itself. The travel advice for Mombasa remains the same. Our travel advice for other parts [...]

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Kenyan police and Muslim youth clash in Mombasa

Ade Adewale — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:50:40 +0000

Kenyan police and Muslim youths clashed in Mombasa following Friday prayers, witnesses said, days after a firebrand Islamist cleric was gunned down in the port city. Security was tight and tensions high around the Musa mosque, seen by Kenyan authorities…

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Hardline Kenyan Muslim cleric shot dead

Adewale Ade — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:11:57 +0000

A prominent hardline Muslim cleric in Kenya was shot dead in Mombasa on Tuesday, amid worsening religious tensions in the strategic port city and gateway to East Africa. Abubaker Shariff Ahmed, better known as Makaburi, was a vocal supporter of Osama…

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Gunmen kill four in attack on Kenyan church

Ade Adewale — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:11:02 +0000

Attackers shot dead four worshippers on Sunday when they burst into a church service near the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, spraying the congregation with bullets, police said. The attack, which also left about 17 people wounded, came amid heightened…

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Kenyan police arrests two from explosives-laden car

Ade Adewale — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:09:18 +0000

Kenyan police said Monday they arrested two men who were driving a vehicle packed with explosives in the Indian Ocean resort city of Mombasa. "We have not established where the target was, but we have detained two terror suspects who were in the vehicle…

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