An improvised explosive device has been safely detonated in Mandera town. A multi-agency team visited the scene and ordered the area be cordoned off as they deployed robots to remove and detonate the gadget.

Mystery surrounds the fatal shooting of two hospital construction workers in Dadaab, Garissa County. Police said they are investigating the Friday night incident that happened as the workers were at a dispensary under construction. It is believed the two were killed by al-Shabaab terrorists operating in the area, police said.

Police in Mandera East on Wednesday, June 5 averted a possible tragedy when they recovered and demolished an IED planted in an abandoned house. Corporal Ibrahim Isaac says that at around 9 am while manning the border at Border Point Section 3, he noticed a suspicious metallic container buried next to a wall of the abandoned house.

Detectives and forensic experts from the DCI Homicide Unit have recovered seven bodies as the fifth phase of Shakahola exhumation kicked off Monday. This has pushed the death toll to 436. The seven skeletal remains were exhumed from four graves at the Kwa Mugambi area south side of controversial pastor Paul Mackenzie's homestead in Shakahola forest, Kilifi County.

Reports indicate that such incidents have occurred in Garissa, Mandera, Turkana, West Pokot, Elgeyo Marakwet, and Baringo. Residents and local officials have voiced concerns about these issues for a long time. In 2023, there were 125 reported incidents of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances across the country.

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption (EACC) has apprehended a chief in Garissa County for allegedly extorting money from refugees who seek services at his office. EACC said on Tuesday that Abdirahman Shafe Yussuf, the Chief of Bulla Mzuri Location, has been demanding bribes from refugees in the ongoing de-registration of fingerprints from the UNHCR system.

A family in Mandera has sued the police and DCI over the disappearance of their kin who went missing in May. Husein Ibrahim Aliew wants the police to produce his brother Isaack Ibrahim before the court or release him.

A section of MCAs from Garissa have raised concern over the increasing cases of disappearance that they claim are orchestrated by security forces. The MCAs are now calling for the immediate release of all the missing persons, saying that the cases have gone on for far too long.

At least one officer was confirmed dead after Al Shabaab militants fired rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at the Border Patrol Unit at Yumbis near the Kenya-Somalia border on Friday. It is reported that during the attack, officers were attacked with RPG and AK47 rifles. The attack left one officer dead, while another sustained a gunshot injury on the right thigh and is in stable condition.

Police in Kisii have arrested a female terror suspect at a lodging facility. Kisii County Police Commander Charles Kases said they had handed over the suspect to the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) for questioning. “A member of the public reported to the police that a woman of Borana origin had been staying in a room at the Black and White Lodging in Kisii Town for the past three weeks,” Mr Kases said.