Kenya Shooting

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  Drought In Northern Kenya Pushes Millions Towards Hunger

  In northern Kenya, the ribs of dead sheep stretch towards the blazing sun as parched herders trudge past, a day's march from water. The value of their skinny goats is falling as fast as the prices scrawled on the sacks in the market are shooting up.

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  Al Shabaab Insurgents Assassinate Ex-Somalian Lawmaker, Wound Another

  Somalia's Al Shabaab insurgents said they had assassinated a former lawmaker and his bodyguard and wounded another MP in a drive-by shooting in Mogadishu today to show the government they remained a threat.

• Kenya Police Probe Hate Speech Leaflets After Port Shootings

  Kenyan police said on Monday they were hunting gunmen who killed four people in an apparent ethnic revenge attack and dropped leaflets demanding minorities leave the port city of Mombasa.

• Kenya Westgate attackers were suicide squad: Somalia's Shebab

  Gunmen who massacred at least 67 people in Kenya's Westgate mall in September were special suicide commandos, Somalia's Shebab insurgents said.

• Chennai: Woman injured in Nairobi mall attack brought back

  A woman from Tiruchirapalli in the state, injured in the Nairobi mall attack in September, was brought to the city today for further medical treatment.

• Kenya: the trauma of a massacre lingers for children

  When the shooting began at the Nairobi mall, Cynthia Carpino and her husband hid in the parking lot. But their 1-year-old daughter wouldn't stop crying. To muffle her cries, her father placed his hand over her mouth so hard she almost suffocated. Little Azzurra fainted in his arms, and three weeks later she's still not right.

• One day, many dead: The start of Kenya mall siege

  It's 1:30 on Saturday afternoon in the Westgate Mall. Rafia Khan is huddling in a crawl space of the Millionaires Casino with her cousin and eight other people as gunmen roam the building and shoot, again and again, into crowds of shoppers.

• Kenya mall attack will 'end soon', says minister

  Kenyan security forces are close to ending a Nairobi shopping mall siege, Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said today, with Islamist attackers still fighting but left with no way out of the complex.

• Nairobi mall attack: Australian-British architect and pregnant wife among killed

  A joint Australian-British architect and his heavily pregnant Dutch wife were named by friends and media today as among those killed in the attack on an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall.

• Heavy gunfire heard coming from Nairobi shopping mall

  Heavy and rapid bursts of gunfire were heard coming from inside Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall at dawn Monday, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.

• 22 dead in upscale mall attack: Kenya Red Cross

  Gunmen threw grenades and opened fire Saturday killing at least 22 people in an attack targeting non-Muslims at an upscale mall in Kenya's capital that was hosting a children's day event, a Red Cross official and witnesses said.

• Neil Nitin rushes to help Puja Gupta

  While shooting for his next film with Puja Gupta in Kenya, he came to her aid when the actress was taken ill.

• Neil off to Kenya for Shortcut Romeo

  Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh is off to Kenya shooting for his new film Shortcut Romeo, directed by Susi Ganesan.