Kenya is prosecuting a protracted struggle against the terrorist group Al Shabaab. A range of nations are involved in the effort alongside Kenya. With foreign actors...
A Cold War military procurement program, preferred private contractors, and escalating drone strikes in Somalia.
A former Indian diplomat recalls the terrifying moments after the terrorist attack on the US embassy in Kenya’s capital city.
The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they are carried out secretly or via proxy armies. These operations have not been...
The rigid distinction between “the tolerant secularist” versus the “barbaric religious fundamentalist” in today’s discourse on the global War on Terror has been employed to justify...
Have Kenya’s close ties with its “Man in Somalia”, Ahmed Madobe, created a rift between Mogadishu and Nairobi? RASNA WARAH explores the precarious relationship between the...
IBRAHIM MAGARA argues that instead of exploring opportunities to heal wounds, and mending ties in pursuit of the national interest, specifically national security, the Kenyan state...
On security, stop and frisk in Nairobi, from an article written by Constant Cap.
The sound of the gun was so loud that we thought he had shot at us from inside the building, perhaps from the ground floor through...
After the Garissa massacre, universities became like military installations. Private security firms were deployed to man the gates and the buildings within universities. Non-students must produce...
