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Throughout much of the 20th century, the Jubaland region in present-day southern Somalia was part of the then British administered Kenya Jubaland was subsequently ceded without the consultation or approval of the kenyan people directly or their representatives to Italy in 1924–25, as a reward for the Italians having joined the Allies in World War I,[8] and had a brief existence as the ...
[15] [20] [21] In 2015, Kenya raised two preliminary objections to the case in regards to the Court’s jurisdiction. The first is based on the claim that the instrument to solve the dispute was the previously signed MoU and that any delimitation shall be made after the CLCS has examined the submissions made by the parties.
On 4 November 2013, a Kenyan court charged four Somali nationals with harbouring the gunmen in their homes, with each pleading not guilty. [4] On 20 September 2015, Foreign Policy magazine reported the Westgate attack on 21 September lasted several hours, with the last victim killed before special Kenyan security forces entered the mall.
Kenyan fighter jets reportedly launch airstrikes against an Al-Shabaab base close to Bardere in southern Somalia. The attack follows recommendations by Aden Duale, the Majority Leader of the National Assembly of Kenya, to negotiate with the militant group. The legislator later recants the suggestions.
Somalis in Kenya, being Eastern Cushites, formed one of the last waves of migrations into present-day Kenya. The current Somali clans started moving into what is today North Eastern Kenya after the Oromo(Galla) were dislodged from the Juba Valley and mostly moved to the Ethiopian Highlands in the 16th Century, leaving much of Southern Somalia ...
On 2 April 2015, gunmen stormed the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing 148 people, [1] [2] and injuring at least 79. The militant groups Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab, which the gunmen claimed to belong to, took responsibility for the attack. [3]
On 18 October, Somalia's President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and other TFG officials hosted a Kenyan delegation in Mogadishu to discuss security co-operation against Al-Shabaab. [63] Somalia's Defence Minister Hussein Arab Isse and Kenya's Defence Minister Mohamed Yusuf Haji then signed an agreement to collaborate against Al-Shabaab. [17]
Evans was well integrated into al-Shabaab, having first joined in 2012, he spoke fluent Somali and issued commands and communicated with fellow fighters through radio. [1] German-born Andreas Martin Muller ("Abu Nusaybah") also took part in the attack, and escaped alive but wounded.