Local sources indicate that on 1 May, a group of suspected al-Shabaab militants attempted a raid on Sangailu Police Station, Garissa County by firing a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) which was followed up by a small arms assault.

Kenya's military said on Wednesday that its forces killed six Al Shabaab militants, including a foreign fighter, during an operation in the coastal county of Lamu. The Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) said it launched a targeted operation at 1:00 pm local time (1000 GMT) against an active Al Shabaab camp in Kumba, about 10 kilometers west of Pandanguo, near the vast Boni forest where the insurgents hide.

At least 13 people were killed after an Improvised Explosive Device went off in Elwak Town, Mandera County. The bomb was laden on a donkey cart when it went off killing the 13, witnesses and police said. This is the second such blast to happen using a donkey cart.

A wanted terror suspect who holed up after being involved in the brutal murder of a police officer and two chiefs in Lamu County in 2019 has been arrested.

Being acquitted of criminal charges by a court would be a great victory for any crime suspect, but not for Marsabit madrasa teacher and cleric Sheikh Guyo Gorsa. Sheikh Gorsa, who was acquitted of terror charges by a Nairobi court in May, is appealing to the state to protect him as he tries to rebuild his life after staying for four and a half years at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.

Hellen Mukami, 30, a resident of Witu village in Lamu County, is married and raising three children from her husband’s previous marriage. The Nation caught up with her on Wednesday last week in Mokowe village on the outskirts of the expansive Boni Forest as she queued to see a doctor at a free mobile field clinic organised by the Administration Police Border Patrol Unit (BPU) and supported by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism and the US Africa Command (Africom).

The Mombasa county assembly has adopted a resilience and violence extremism policy to help prevent violent extremism cases. The policy will promote strategies of co-existence and economic empowerment among state and non-state actors. This will help in improving the peaceful and dignified lives of Mombasa residents.

Security agencies in Lamu County have denied unfairly targeting pastoralist communities in the war against terrorism in the region. Some locals have complained about constant harassment from security agencies that felt they were either terrorists or were harbouring suspected terrorists.

Civil society organizations have expressed concern following recent findings by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue that indicated Meta and Facebook failed to stop the terrorist groups including Al-Shabab and the Islamic State from using its social media platforms. The study suggested the terrorist groups succeeded to a large extent in spreading hateful terrorist content in East Africa and Kenya in particular.

Al-Shabaab and the Islamic State are using Facebook to spread their hateful ideologies, grow audiences and broadcast their messaging in East Africa, with Kenya as their focus. This is according to a new report shared with the Nation by the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). According to ISD, there is a highly-coordinated online propaganda machine that relies on thousands-strong networks of Somali, Swahili and Arabic language and pages to seed its content on the platform, some of which may have been hacked from unsuspecting users.