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The Kenyan air force bombed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia on Sunday in the first major military response to last week's attack by the militant group on a Kenyan university.
Kenyan authorities on Sunday revealed the identity of one of the terrorists who attacked Garisa University college on Thursday.
A total of 663 survivors of the Garissa attack left Garissa town Saturday to their respective homes.
Kenya's Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery confirmed that police are holding 3 more suspects over Garissa University attack, making 5 the number of those in custody.
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, has received 24 students wounded in a terrorist attack Friday afternoon and is still expecting another 10. Doctors said all the students are in stable condition and two have been discharged.
President Xi Jinping Friday sent a message to Nigeria's former military strongman Muhammadu Buhari to congratulate him on his election as the new head of state of Nigeria.
Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Liu Xianfa has condemned Thursday's terrorist attack on Garissa University College in northern Kenya, which has claimed 147 lives.
The death toll in the attack by Somali Islamists on a university in northeastern Kenya on Thursday has risen to 147 and the siege has ended, the country's disaster response agency said.
Kenyan police on Thursday circulated a photo of a senior Al-Shabaab leader, whom they believe is behind the university attack in Garissa that has so far killed 17 and injured 65 others.
At least 15 people have been confirmed dead and 65 others injured after gunmen from Somali militant group Al-Shabaab stormed a university in Kenya.
At least two people have been confirmed dead and four others injured after gunmen attacked a university in northern Kenya's Garissa town early Thursday.
Unknown armed gunmen suspected to be Al-Shabaab militants on Thursday morning attacked a university college in Garissa near the border with Somalia and held student hostages.