Leaders of Kenya and Ethiopia are in South Sudan attempting to stop escalating violence in the country from breaking into total civil war.
Several leaders in South Sudan believe the country is already in a state of war.
Ethiopian Prime Minsiter Hailemariam Desalegn and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will be holding talks today with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir regarding the violence. Kiir started the insurrection by firing his cabinet months ago including the country’s Vice President.
Kiir claimed on December 15th that the former leaders were attempting a coup which was denied by his rivals. After the President made the declaration, violence broke out in the nation’s capital and has spread to surrounding cities.
The United Nations says mass graves have been found throughout the nation and they fear that thousands have already been killed in the violence. Witnesses report that Muslim militias are targeting Christians for mass slaughter.
Kenya’s air force destroyed a training base for the al-Qaeda related Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabab.
Kenyan Defense Force spokesman Col. Cyrus Oguna said that the training camp housed about 300 recruits but he was unable to confirm the number of deaths. He speculated that the total number of terrorists killed and wounded would be available by early next week.
Al-Shabab is responsible for an attack on a Nairobi mall last month that killed 67 people.
Col. Oguna said that the attack on the terrorist camp is the first in a planned series of military actions against training camps of the terrorist group.
Security is being increased at shopping centers and other public locations after U.S. intelligence discovered plots for a terrorist attack similar to the attack last month in Kenya that killed over 66 people.
The BBC is reporting that cars are being searched along with bags of pedestrians in Kampala. Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo told the BBC he was thankful the U.S. told them of the impending attack.
Somalia’s al-Shabab terrorist group, who carried out the Kenyan attack, launched a terror attack in Kampala in 2010 that killed more than 70 people. Two restaurants filled with soccer fans watching the World Cup were hit with homicide bombers.
Al-Shabab has threatened Uganda because they have contributed troops to the African Union force helping Somalia’s legitimate government destroy the terrorist group.
A group of Muslim youth attacked and burned a Salvation Army church in Mombasa, Kenya, killing four people.
Police attributed the attack to anger over the shooting of an imam earlier in the week. Muslims are claiming the police are using the attack by the Islamic terrorist group al-Shabab two weeks ago as a basis to harass other Muslims.
The imam and three others were found dead in a car that was riddled with bullet holes. Muslim leaders are claiming local police assassinated the imam. Kenyan police are denying any link to the murder.
An imam who was killed in August 2012 mentored the murdered imam, Sheikh Ibrahim Omar. That imam, Aboud Rogo, was a fundraiser and recruiter for the terrorist group al-Shabab.
A Kenyan intelligence official says al-Shabab ran a store for almost a year in the upscale mall where they launched a terrorist assault last week.
The revelation could explain how the terrorists were able to get so many weapons into the mall. Continue reading →
A British woman is being sought by Interpol on charges of possessing explosives in 2011 but is widely suspected as being a part of the terrorist attacks on a Kenyan shopping mall last week.
Samantha Lewthwaite, 29, was married to one of the four homicide bombers who launched an attack in London on July 7, 2005. Nicknamed the “white widow,” she has been closely linked to the al-Qaeda related terrorist organization al-Shabab. That group claimed responsibility for the Kenyan mall attack. Continue reading →
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta says the four day siege by Islamist terrorists at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi is over.
In a televised statement to the nation, Kenyatta said that 5 terrorists had been shot and killed during the battle with police and 11 other terrorists have been taken into custody. Continue reading →
Kenyan security forces launched an all out assault Monday against a group of terrorists that had seized a shopping mall in the capital city of Nairobi.
The official death toll has stayed at 62 while at least 170 have now been reported wounded by government officials. The interior ministry has taken to the social network Twitter to tell people to stay away from the mall complex. Continue reading →
The grisly massacre at an upscale Kenyan shopping mall by al-Shabab militants is a “great shot in the arm” to the Al Qaeda-linked group’s efforts to recruit fighters from the West, including the U.S., terror experts tell FoxNews.com. Continue reading →
Kenyan forces have secured an upscale Nairobi shopping mall, killing three suspected terrorists and promising to “punish” any others they encounter, following a three-day hostage standoff with an al Qaeda-linked rebel group that has killed at least 62 people and injured 175, police said. Continue reading →