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World Briefing | Africa: Kenya: Suspect Is Sought In Blast
nytimes.com 2 hours, 45 minutes agoKenyan authorities were looking for several people who they believe planted a homemade bomb at a crowded market in Nairobi on Monday.
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Kenya Says Seizes Somali Rebel Bastion Of Afmadow
yahoo.com 13 hours, 34 minutes agoNAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan ground forces captured the Somali rebel redoubt of Afmadow on Wednesday, a military spokesman said, and were closing in on the port city of Kismayu, the hub of al Shabaab militants' southern operations. "(We have) secured the town of Afmadow," Major Emmanuel Chirchir said on the social media site Twitter. Kenya sent troops across the border into Somalia in October, blaming al Qaeda-linked insurgents there for a string of kidnappings on Kenyan soil that threatened to harm the east










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