Kenya: Security Agencies Foil Suspected Terror Attack on Garissa-Dadaab Road, Recover IED

A multi-agency security team has thwarted a suspected terror plot along the Garissa-Dadaab Road, with police recovering an Improvised Explosive Device during a routine multi-agency patrol in the Haji Aden area. The suspect was intercepted on Saturday, May 23, after Read More …

Kenya: Two students among injured after school bus runs over IED in Garissa

At least two students were slightly injured after a bus they were travelling in was hit by a blast at Hagadera Refugee Camp, Garissa county. The bus belonging to Alinjugur Secondary School in Garissa County ran over an Improvised Explosive Read More …

Kenya: Three police officers injured in IED blast in Garissa

At least three police officers from the General Service Unit were injured following an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack in Fafi Subcounty, Garissa county. Police said the incident happened at around 6:33 am on February 23, 2026, at Harbole area. Read More …

Kenya: Two police officers killed, three critically injured in Garissa IED attack

Two police officers were killed on Wednesday after a Border Patrol Unit (BPU) vehicle ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) along the Liboi–Kulan road in Garissa County, in an attack authorities have attributed to Somalia-based al-Shabaab militants. Police Headquarters Read More …

Kenya: Special Police Squad Thwarts Al-Shabaab Bomb Attack

enya’s Elite Special Operations Group (SOG) officers have stopped eight Al-Shabaab terrorists who were attempting to plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Garissa County. In a statement issued by the Kenya Counter Terrorism Policing on Sunday October 26, the SOG Read More …

Kenya: Two dead in Garissa after IED blast along Ijara–Bodhai Road

Two people died on Sunday night after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED) suspected to have been planted by Al-Shabaab militants along a road linking Ijara town to Bodhai sub-county in Garissa County. Bodhai Deputy County Commissioner Dubat Read More …

Kenya: Six police personnel killed by suspected al Shabaab fighters in Garissa

At least six police personnel were killed in Kenya while four were injured in an attack on a police camp by suspected Islamist militants in Garissa county in the country’s east on the border with Somalia, police said. The assault Read More …

Kenya: Security forces destroy two al-Shabab camps in border region

Kenya’s counter-terrorism police unit said its special forces carried out intelligence-led operations on the border with Somalia, destroying two al-Shabab makeshift camps. It said the operation, carried out by the Special Operations Group, Kenya’s elite counter-terrorism group, led to the Read More …

Kenya: IED-making materials recovered from Garissa guest house

Multi-agency teams are searching for suspects behind the recovered bomb-making materials from a guesthouse in Garissa Town. The team said the materials were meant to make an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) for use at an undisclosed place. A team raided a Read More …

Kenyan security forces kill two al-Shahab terrorists in foiled attack

Kenyan security forces killed two al-Shabab militants while others escaped with injuries Saturday in a thwarted terrorist attack in eastern Kenya’s Garissa County near the border with Somalia. The police said in a security report released Saturday evening that its Read More …

Kenya: Four construction workers killed near Somalia border

Gunmen in northern Kenya fatally shot four construction workers at a hospital site near a refugee camp and the border with Somalia where a militant group is active, police said Saturday. A group of eight workers were resting Friday when Read More …

Kenya: Nine police officers injured in IED attack in Hagadera, Garissa

The officers from the elite Special Operations Group were in a convoy of two vehicles when the incident happened on Saturday, March 9 morning, officials said. Police said the APC was damaged after being hit by an Improvised Explosive Device Read More …

Kenya: GSU officer injured as vehicle hits suspected IED in Garissa

A GSU officer has been injured while several others escaped unhurt after their Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (M-RAP) vehicle was hit by a suspected IED in Banane, Garissa. The incident happened approximately two kilometres from Banane Centre in Damajale location some Read More …

Kenya: Two GSU officers killed, 4 injured in IED attack in Garissa

At least two General Service Unit officers were killed and four others seriously injured on Monday morning when a remote-controlled bomb hit their vehicle in Dadaab, Garissa County. Police said the attack took place at Ege Dam along Dadaab-Garissa road Read More …

Kenya: Two Al-Shabaab militants killed, others injured while planting explosives in Garissa

Two Al-Shabaab terrorists have died as several others sustained serious injuries following an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion along Amuma-Ruqa Road in Garissa County. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), in a statement on Tuesday, termed the morning incident as Read More …

Kenya: Four al-Shabab terror suspects killed in border raid

Kenyan security forces have killed four al-Shabab terror suspects and injured several others after raiding the militant group’s camp in Garissa County, northeast part of the country, the police confirmed Wednesday. The police said the security forces raided the al-Shabab hideout Read More …

Kenya’s rise in al-Shabaab attacks calls for localised solutions

In the past three weeks, over 30 security force officers have been killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in more than 10 attacks across north-eastern Kenya’s Garissa and Lamu counties. The violent extremist group Al-Shabaab is believed to be behind Read More …

Kenya: 3 police officers killed in roadside blast in Garissa

At least three police officers were killed and eight others wounded when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device on Monday in Garissa County in northeastern Kenya, according to the police. After the explosion, the al-Shabab militants ambushed the Read More …

Kenya: 8 Officers killed as Al-Shabaab stage three attacks in Wajir, Garissa, Lamu

At least eight police officers were killed Tuesday in Bodhei at the border of Lamu and Garissa counties when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device. The officers drawn from the special forces unit were Read More …