| 5,628,237 |
-1.05 |
36.56667 |
Kenya |
|
The more than 200 youth, armed with weapons raided a sand harvesting site in Kedong Ranch and set the lorries ablaze. The attack follows a fall-out between traders and the youth from Mai Mahiu over control of the sand business. |
| 5,628,242 |
3.50937 |
39.05276 |
Kenya |
|
Nine are feared dead in Moyale as fights between Borana and Gabra-Burji militia. On the morning of 30/01 suspected Gabra-Burji militias attacked Kate village, some 50 kilometres from Moyale town. The Borana group responded with heavy resistance. After about half an hour of intense exchange, the fights moved from the village into the bush. As at 11am fierce exchange was heard towards Funan-nyata about 15 kilometres from Kate. |
| 5,628,246 |
-1.27169 |
36.84969 |
Kenya |
|
Police in Eastleigh arrest over 100 Somali expatriates with suspected connections to al Shabaab in a night time operation. |
| 5,628,251 |
-4.05 |
39.66667 |
Kenya |
|
A police officer and two youths are killed in a confrontation at the Masjid Musa Mosque in Mombasa. Police had stormed the mosque to arrest youths who were suspected to have been holding an al Shabaab recruitment meeting. At time of the raid the mosque was donned with al-Shabaab flags. Following the raid a three hour battle ensued, wile the youths, holed up in the Mosque mounted a resistance. Police fired teargas canisters to smoke them out of the mosque and in the process a police officer was killed. Two youths were also shot dead by police and several other people injured. 129 arrests reported, a court later charged all with being members of al Shabaab. Twenty-one were released in the following week. |
| 5,628,255 |
-4.05 |
39.66667 |
Kenya |
|
During a police raid on Masjid Msa Mosque crowds in surrounding area hurled stones at the police. |
| 5,628,259 |
-4.05 |
39.66667 |
Kenya |
|
Police battle stone throwing youth for a second day in Mombasa. The confrontation between police armed with rubber bullets and the youth forced businesses near the Masjid Msa Mosque to shut down as roads were blocked and cars smashed. |
| 5,628,263 |
-4.05 |
39.66667 |
Kenya |
|
Youths demanding the release of a group of youths who had been arrested following during fighting after police stormed a meeting in Masjid Msa Mosque riot. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the protesters who were hurling rocks and shouting "release our brothers". Twenty-one arrested. |
| 5,628,267 |
-1.28333 |
36.81667 |
Kenya |
|
Kenyan journalists have joined international journalists outside the Egyptian Embassy in Nairobi to protest the imprisonment of three Al Jazeera correspondents in Cairo. |
| 5,628,271 |
-4.08394 |
39.66161 |
Kenya |
|
A bomb was in the early morning hurled at a primary school in Likoni, Mombasa. Police say the device exploded inside the school compound, but no injuries have been reported. |
| 5,628,275 |
-4.03333 |
39.68333 |
Kenya |
|
Ten people were arrested as 300 Muslim youth engaged police in running battles in Kisauni, angered a recent raid on a nearby Mosque. Additionally, three passers-by were stabbed, robbed and seriously injured over cover of the melee. The violence occurred in the early afternoon. |
