Attacks increase pressure on Kenya

According to a global survey from B2B International and Kaspersky Lab, in the last year, almost 98 per cent of users enjoy the ease and convenience of shopping and banking on their PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. The report also indicates that Cybercriminals are taking advantage of this reality. Last year alone, the number of cyber-attacks involving financial malware increased to 28.4 million -27.6 million more than 2012. Bethwel Opil is the channel sales manager for Kaspersky in...

>Somalia’s al-Shabaab militants may be planning new attacks on Kenya, the director of US national intelligence warned on Wednesday.

Several people, including suspected ringleaders, have been arrested over this week's deadly attacks on Kenya's coast, the local police chief says.

Police in Kenya arrest a regional governor in connection with attacks that killed at least 60 people in the coastal town of Mpeketoni.

At least 500 people have been killed in about 150 separate Al-Shabaab attacks across Kenya from 2012 to June 2015.

The ongoing cyber-attacks on web and social sites operated by the government, the military and top leaders is part of an effort to expose corruption in Kenya, a ‘hacktivist’ group has claimed.

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>International pressure continues to mount on President Pierre Nkurunziza ahead of a regional emergency meeting in Dar es Salaam next week to try and resolve the Burundi political crisis.

An International organisation has petitioned President Jakaya Kikwete to reinstate land rights of Uvinje Village residents in Saadani, and allow them to participate in conservation.