Ethnic Somalis are dying in Kenya, and some say...
Ethnic Somalis are dying in Kenya, and some say the government is to blame
by Ariel Zirulnick | A growing number of Kenya’s ethnic Somalis have vanished or turned up dead after being detained amid a crackdown by security forces on Islamist extremists.
Ethiopia risks diplomatic row after its soldiers...
Ethiopia risks diplomatic row after its soldiers enter Kenya and kill local police officers
Nairobi will seek an explanation from Addis Ababa after Ethiopian soldiers killed three Kenyan police officers in foreign territory, Kenyan media reported Sunday. Kenyan security forces including the army have since been deployed to the border following the Friday incursion, the Sunday Nation, the country’s largest circulating, reported. Read more
Eritrea hires 35 Kenyans
Eritrea hires 35 Kenyans
Eritrean ambassador Beyene Russom with Margaret Ikua of Magtech Inspiration Centre and Jane Muigai director of toolkit Institute after signing a deal yesterday to recruit Kenyan lecturers to work in Eritrea. Read more
Kenya’s Reprisals Against Ethiopia
Kenya’s Reprisals Against Ethiopia
Undermined by the incursion of the Ethiopian army into Kenyan territory in late May (at the Illeret locality, 15 km from the border), relations between Kenya and Ethiopia could deteriorate even further. The Kenyan government has decided to break the agreement signed with Ethiopia in 2012 under which Kenya undertook to import some 400 MW for a period of 30 years, after the Gilgel Gibe III dam (southwest Ethiopia) is completed next year. Read more
Ethiopian regime troops invaded Kenya today, for...
Ethiopian regime troops invaded Kenya today, for the second time this month
More than 30 heavily armed Ethiopian government soldiers invaded Lataka village in Sololo, Kenya, on Tuesday morning and allegedly roughed up locals.
The soldiers also allegedly disarmed a Kenya Police Reservist (KPR) officer and arrested some residents of the village.
Locals claimed the Ethiopian soldiers demanded they produce and disclose whereabouts of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebels, which is an outlawed militia in Ethiopia. Read more
