Kenyan intelligence shuts down Quba Islamic Centre in Garissa fearing infiltration by Somali militants
Garissa branch SUPKEM chairperson, Sheikh Abdullahi Salat, said that it was shameful that religious people who were supposed to bring people together were now dividing them. Sheikh Salat reiterated that SUPKEM was fully supporting the government’s move to shut the place down and called for the arrest of all those fuelling the conflicts.
Amnesty Kenya: 16 Kenyans shot dead in protests against extrajudicial killings, abductions and police brutality
Large crowds were seen earlier heading in the direction of State House, the president’s official residence, in scenes broadcast by Kenyan channel NTV before it and another broadcaster KTN were pulled off the air after defying an order to stop live broadcasts of the demonstrations.
Why intelligence community fears Republicans’ ‘nonsensical’ policy proposals in Project 2025 put US elections at risk
During the 2020 election, amid conspiracy theories and hoaxes about Covid-19 and the presidential election, CISA flagged state and local officials’ concerns about online falsehoods to social media companies. This practice, dubbed “switchboarding,” outraged conservatives, who accused CISA of suppressing their speech. House Republicans produced a report on what they called “the weaponisation” of the agency, two GOP-led states sued the government (the US Supreme Court dismissed the case).
