Kenya's 3rd President, Mwai Kibaki is dead - president Uhuru Kenyatta announces. Kibaki is remembered for initiating 'Operation Linda Nchi' where Kenyan forces went into Somalia to fight Al Shabaab militants.
Two command and logistic bases of militants in the Bodhei area were also destroyed in the operation adding rifles, explosives, bullets, military uniforms, and communication equipment were also recovered.
Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for an attack that took place on Friday 11th March 2022 on workers who had been constructing a bridge on the Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET).
The security agencies have doubled their efforts and have been laying strategies to flush out the militants from Boni Forest. Just recently in January 2022, ten al-Shabaab militants hiding in a camp in Boni forest were killed.
Kenya: French & Netherlands Embassies in Nairobi issue alert of a possible terror attack advising their citizens to avoid places where 'Westerners frequent the most'
Nigeria: The Nigerian Army has said its troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) repelled an attack on Biu town, Borno State on Saturday.
Kenya's Border Patrol Unit repulse AS militants & neutralize 10, wounding several others after they attacked a mobile patrol unit headed to Mokowe with an RPG killing 4 GSU officers from Kasakairo camp.
Location: Milihoi - Lamu.
Mali otherwise known as the 'Afghanistan of Africa' is the hornet's nest.Together with other countries in the Sahel,Mali just like Somalia has been unstable for decades.With parts of her under the control of #IslamicState & #AlQaeda. /1
October 14 marks the day in 2011 when Kenyan troops went to Somalia under Operation Linda Nchi to fight al Shabaab that had kidnapped tourists. KDF Day is observed annually to celebrate the courage of heroes, heroines.