TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Vice-President and Head of the Department of Environment Masoumeh Ebtekar and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in a meeting in Nairobi on Sunday underlined the need for the further expansion of mutual cooperation, specially in ecotourism, wild life management and protected zones. During the meeting in the Kenyan capital today, ...

A group of African countries will present the UN Security Council with a resolution that seeks a one-year suspension of International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against Kenyas leaders. The decision was announced by a delegation of African foreign ministers from Kenya, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Senegal, Namibia and Uganda on Thursday after meeting with ...

The African Union (AU) has given the International Criminal Court (ICC) ultimatum to halt the case of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is charged with crimes against humanity. Following a special summit in Addis Ababa on Saturday, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the African leaders had decided that Kenyatta should not ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - In the aftermath of the attack on a Nairobi shopping mall, Kenya's president appears increasingly unlikely to attend his trial at the International Criminal Court, where he is charged with crimes against humanity. Even as heads of state prepare to gather for an African Union summit on Saturday, where they could debate the possible ...

Kenyan officials say the government has launched an investigation into a four-day siege at a partly Israeli-owned shopping mall in Nairobi that killed at least 72 people and destroyed part of the complex. The officials said on Wednesday that US, British and Israeli agencies are helping the eastern African country in the probe. A day earlier, Kenyan ...

Al-Shabab fighters in Kenya claim some 140 hostages have been killed during the siege of the Westgate shopping mall, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The al-Qaeda-affiliated militants made their claims on Wednesday, accusing the security forces of using chemical agents to end the four-day deadly mall standoff. However, the officials have not verified ...

Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta announces the end of the Nairobi mall standoff after six attackers were killed and 11 others arrested by Kenyan security forces. Kenyatta said a deadly siege on a shopping center in the capital Nairobi is over, adding security forces have defeated and ashamed the attackers. Our losses are immense, Kenyatta said in ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Kenyan authorities are searching the Westgate mall in Nairobi for militants from the Shabab. Civilian death toll is lowered to 62. Authorities said they were going floor by floor through a darkened, smoldering mall early Tuesday as they searched for remnants of a team of attackers that had seized the building, and that they ...

[caption id="attachment_52007" align="alignright" width="210"] Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) arrive on September 22, 2013 at the Westgate mall in Nairobi.[/caption] Heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard from Nairobis Westgate shopping mall as Kenyas security forces launch a final assault against Somali gunmen inside the complex. Witnesses said ...

A Kenyan security official says Israeli forces have entered a shopping mall in the capital Nairobi where Somali militants have already killed dozens of people and an unknown number of hostages are still being held. Local security officials say the Israeli forces have joined Kenyans to end the deadly mall siege on Sunday. The Kenyan troops backed by ...

[caption id="attachment_52007" align="alignright" width="210"] Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) arrive on September 22, 2013 at the Westgate mall in Nairobi.[/caption] The death toll from an attack by Somali militants on a Nairobi shopping mall has reached 59 as an unknown number of hostages are still being held in the Westgate center. Kenyas Interior ...

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says two nationals of his country, including a diplomat, are among the dozens of people killed in Saturdays attack in a partly Israeli-owned shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Saturday that at least 39 people had been killed, including close members of his own ...

[caption id="attachment_51976" align="alignright" width="210"] People leave Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall (September 21, 2013)[/caption] Kenyan security officials say gunmen are still holding hostages inside a shopping mall in Nairobi where they have already killed dozens of people. The Kenya National Disaster Operation Center said that the attackers ...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has strongly condemned Saturdays blatant attack on a Nairobi shopping mall that left dozens of people dead, vowing to hunt down and punish the perpetrators. The Kenyan president said in a televised address on Saturday night that at least 39 people had been killed, including close members of his own family, and more ...