Tom Odula

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A pile of mild stimulant drug Khat llies beside the wreckage of a Fokker 50 cargo plane after it crashed into a building on take-off at Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. According to a police official said Joseph Ngisa, the airport's head of police investigations, four people aboard the plane were killed when their cargo plane crashed, transporting the mild stimulant drug known as Khat to the Somali capital of Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

4 dead after cargo plane crashes in Kenya capital

Tom Odula · July 2, 2014 12:13 pm

Report: 58 killed in hospitals in S.Sudan conflict

Report: 58 killed in hospitals in S.Sudan conflict

Tom Odula · July 1, 2014 3:38 pm

FILE - In this Friday, May 16, 2014 file photo, security forces inspect the scene at the site where two blasts detonated, one in a mini-van used for public transportation, in a market area of Nairobi, Kenya. Officials and analysts in Kenya say that corrupt police and other government employees willing to break rules for bribes are weakening Kenya's ability to prevent a new rash of terror carried out by attackers with links to Somali militants, which has seen a long string of deadly attacks this year, including grenade blasts and homemade bombs. (AP Photo, File)

Experts: Corruption exposing Kenya to terrorism

Tom Odula · May 29, 2014 10:53 am

S. Sudan wants US, UN to verify who is attacking

S. Sudan wants US, UN to verify who is attacking

Tom Odula · May 15, 2014 4:06 pm

Bomb attacks: Kenya deputy president blames judges

Bomb attacks: Kenya deputy president blames judges

Tom Odula · May 5, 2014 7:18 pm

An injured child arrives in an ambulance at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Sunday May 4, 2014. Two improvised explosive devices went off on buses along one of busiest highways in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi killing one person and wounding several others, police said Sunday, as the East African nation struggles to crackdown on a recent wave of terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

Kenya gov’t: 2 dead in 2 explosions in Nairobi

Tom Odula · May 4, 2014 5:16 pm

People stand near to a bus with windows shattered after an explosion, in Mombasa Kenya, Saturday, May, 3, 2014. At least three have been confirmed dead and several others injured in twin explosions in the coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya, police said on Saturday. Mombasa Country police commander, Robert Kitur said they have not established the cause of the explosions at Reef Hotel Nyali and Mwembe Tayari in town. (AP Photo)

Kenya gov’t: 3 killed in 2 blasts at Kenyan coast

Tom Odula · May 3, 2014 8:37 pm

Car bomb outside Nairobi police station kills 4

Car bomb outside Nairobi police station kills 4

Tom Odula · April 23, 2014 8:53 pm

Kenya sends 91 Somalis to Mogadishu amid crackdown

Tom Odula · April 17, 2014 3:49 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service take cover while engaging in a mock ambush as they stage a demonstration of the skills they have learned over the last few days of joint anti-poaching training with Britain's 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, in the forest near Nanyuki, Kenya. Kenya's central government will oversee the running of the country's wildlife authority for the next three months in a bid to stop poaching of the country's elephants and rhinos, an official with the Ministry of Environment and Natural resources said Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Kenya gov’t to oversee wildlife authority actions

Tom Odula · April 11, 2014 2:51 pm

Somali Member of Parliament Muse Sheikh Omar, center, carries a young Somali girl deportee as he helps Somalis who had been deported from Kenya to Somalia from their aircraft after it landed at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Kenya's security minister said Wednesday that 82 Somali nationals have been deported in an ongoing security crackdown following recent terror attacks in Kenya's capital and the port city of Mombasa. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Kenya deports 82 Somalis in terror crackdown

Tom Odula · April 9, 2014 5:21 pm

Kenya: 3,000 arrested after terror attacks

Kenya: 3,000 arrested after terror attacks

Tom Odula · April 8, 2014 6:50 pm