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People extinguish fire on cars caused by a bomb explosion near Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda, on November 16, 2021. - Two explosions hit Uganda's capital Kampala on November 16, 2021, injuring a number of people in what police termed an attack on the city, the latest in a string of blasts targeting the country. The explosions occurred in the central business district of Kampala near the central police station and the entrance to parliament, police said. (Photo by Ivan Kabuye / AFP) Kenya deployed heavily armed police officers around key installations on Tuesday in response to twin suicide bomb blasts that rocked Kampala. At least six people were killed and hundreds injured in the Ugandan capital. One blast was near Parliament, the other near the Central police stat...

Police have arrested a cache of arms and bullets from two women in Dagoretti, Nairobi. The weapons, which included an M4 sniper rifle with an effective range of 500 meters, four pistols, close quarter Uzi automatic submachine gun capable of firing 600 rounds per a minute and 3,700 bullets of different caliber were seized on Wednesday afternoon in an operation. Police said they arrested two women- Joyce Muthoni Mwihia and her mother Goretti Mwihia -who hold dual US citizenship and live in Racecourse, Dagoretti Corner, Nairobi. The women were taken for interrogation by officers from Anti-Terror Police Unit. Head of ATPU John Gachomo said they had taken the weapons to experts for ballistic examination. He added the weapons seem to have been illegally import...

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Kampala bombings: Kenya tracking terror cells

Mother, daughter arrested with sniper rifles in Dagoretti.