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Report says almost 50 million people in the region require urgent food and water assistance.

Over the past year, billions of people all over the world have relied heavily on internet connectivity to keep in touch with family and friends, learn online, work from home and get vital information about the coronavirus pandemic. Yet over the course of 2020, 29 countries intentionally shut down or slowed their internet communications at least 155 times, according to a new report published by Access Now, a non-profit digital rights group. “We are extremely concerned how government authorities are using internet shutdowns as a systemised tool to repress democratic expression, even in the mi...

A journey from violence to dialogue in northern Kenya Format The recurring dispute between the Garre and Murulle communities in Kenya’s Mandera County has disrupted social cohesion and community life for years. The two communities in northeast Kenya have experienced repeated cycle of violence resulting in the loss of life, damage to property and leaving their loved ones injured. Recently, both communities decided to talk to each other, instead of fighting, thereby transforming a violent situation into a peaceful process. “I lost my brother because of the tension between the Garre and the...

In the arid northern corner of Kenya, bordering Somalia and Ethiopia, there’s growing frustration. It is largely because of the increasing strength of the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-shabaab jihadist group. Some 1,000 kilometres from the capital, Nairobi, the Mandera County is increasingly coming under the control of Al-Shabaab. ''We left the town at about 6am but after some time, when we had reached a solar power centre, security vehicles came speeding and police officers asked us to return to town. The police have told us nothing since the incident, we are here waiting for communication from them"...

GOOBJOOG NEWS|KENYA:  Two hyenas were killed Monday night in Kenya’s north=east after an improvised explosive device (IED) targeting security personnel went off after the two animals curiously interfered with the explosives Police in Konto Area of Wajir county said the two carnivores were found dead Friday night at the scene of the blast after police responded to a loud ban which they suspected was an attack by the militant group Al-Shabaab. Upon arrival at the scene, a police officer said, two hyenas lay dead while wires and explosives devices were strewn around the area. Al-Shabaab has ...