Garissa

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) on July 17 performed free eye surgeries for poor communities in Kenya's northern town of Garissa.

A Nairobi court on April 7 ordered five Kenyans and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while police investigate possible connections to last week's university massacre.
      

Kenya launched air strikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a Kenyan college that killed 148 people, a military spokesman said April 6.
     
Warplanes attacked positions of the Shebab militant group on Sunday afternoon and early Monday morning, said Col. David Obonyo of the Kenyan military.
     

Kenyan fighter jets bombed on Sunday positions of the militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia in response to the recent terrorist attack carried against Garissa University College.

The military planes targeted two camps in the Gedo region, which are used by Al-Shabaab to cross into Kenya, the BBC reports.

Kenyan special forces took at least seven hours to deploy at a university massacre in which almost 150 people were killed, scathing reports said Sunday, but security chief defended their response.
      

At least 70 hostages have been killed in Thursday's attack by Islamist militants on a university campus in Kenya, the BBC reported, citing officials.

According to Kenyan authorities, at least 79 were injured while more than 500 students were rescued from the Garissa University College campus.

The bodies of dozens of students massacred by Somalia's Shebab Islamists at a Kenyan university arrived in the capital Friday, as grieving relatives faced a desperate wait to receive the remains of their loved ones.
      

Al-Shabab gunmen attacked a college in northeast Kenya early April 2, targeting Christians and killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others, witnesses said.
                   

Gunmen have killed at least fifteen people and taken students as hostages at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia.

According to aid workers and police, about 30 people were injured as five masked gunmen stormed the building of the university, the BBC reports.

Gunmen barged at a Garissa University College in Kenya, near the border with Somalia, and attacked people at the university compounds. Two people manning the university gate have been killed and four injured according to figures so far, however the extent of the damage is still uncleara.