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The Kenya Forum has received information, as yet unconfirmed, that the UN have issued a warning of what is being termed ‘an organised riot’ to take place somewhere in Nairobi today at 1pm. The Forum understands that at least one school, The Hillcrest Secondary School in the Karen district, Nairobi, is sending its students home […]

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PM ODINGA CONDEMNS SHOOTING AND CALLS FOR RESTRAINT Prime Minister Raila Odinga condemned the killing of Aboud Rogo Mohammed and called on both Muslims and Christians to show restraint. The shooting of Aboud Rogo “is the most heinous act and stands condemned in the strongest possible terms”, the Prime Minister said. PM Odinga called for […]

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A prison warder has been killed and 14 other officers injured in a grenade attack in Mombasa as rioting by youths has been reported as spreading to the North Coast in the Kisauni, Mwandoni, Bakarani and Bamburi areas of the city, with barricades of burning tyres, stones and debris littering the streets following the shooting […]

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Riots broke out in Mombasa last night after the assassination of the ‘radical’ cleric Aboud Rogo Mohammed who was allegedly linked to Somalia’s Al-Qa’ida-allied Shebab militants. Cars have been set on fire and two churches were looted in Mombasa it is reported. At least one person was hacked to death as thousands of protesters took […]

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Amidst disgraceful scenes this morning at the Castle Royal Hotel in Mombasa, the former aide to Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Miguna Miguna, who is on a Kenya-wide tour to promote his book ‘Peeling Back the Mask’, was ‘roughed up’ by a crowd or armed youths who object to his criticism of the PM. Miguna Miguna’s […]

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