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The NSIS is charged with identifying conditions that threaten Kenya's political, economic and social stability. It develops techniques and strategies to neutralise such threats. The NSIS director is the national security advisor to the president of Kenya.
National Intelligence Service (Kenya) (NIS) was previously known as the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) [5] which had its origins in "Special Branch" a department of the national police that was created in 1952 under the British administration. [6] Among other things it provided intelligence during the Mau Mau Uprising. [6]
Kenya. National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) [7] Lebanon. Special Agency to Combat Terrorism [8] Malaysia. Cawangan Khas (CK) Bahagian Penyelidikan Jabatan Perdana Menteri (BPJPM) Kor Risik Diraja (KRD) Pertubuhan Perisikan Pertahanan Malaysia (PPPM) Myanmar. Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI) Office of the Chief of Military Security ...
Kenya–United States relations have been improved through cooperation against terrorism and a visit by President Obama to Kenya, which is the homeland of his father. Kenya's athletic mastery of some auspicious American events such as the Boston Marathon and New York Marathon have increased ordinary Americans' consciousness of Kenya paving the ...
In the spring of 2011, the World Bank urged Kenya’s finance ministry to end the evictions until the bank could help the government work out a plan for addressing the Sengwer’s concerns. According to bank officials, Kenyan authorities agreed to stop the evictions until they found new land where the Sengwer could relocate.
At the urging of al-Shabaab, [24] an increasing number of terrorist attacks in Kenya have been carried out by local Kenyans, many of whom are recent converts to Islam. [73] Estimates in 2012 placed the figure of Kenyan fighters at around 10% of Al-Shabaab's total forces.
Malindi, Kenya Noordin Mohamed Haji, OGW, CBS (born 3 July 1973) is a Kenyan lawyer and civil servant who is the current Director-General of the National Intelligence Service (NIS). He previously served as the Director of Public Prosecutions from 2018 to 2023.
The Observer reported that Kenya had prior intelligence of an attack in Nairobi, and that there were reports of NIS agents being at Westgate a few hours before the attack. [79] From its start, the investigation was hampered by a wide range of conflicting eyewitness testimony about the number of attackers, the gunmen's true identities, and even ...