The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 people at a university last week, the interior ministry said, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations.

History is repeating itself in reverse as immigrants to Ireland begin changing their names to westernised versions.

The son of a Kenyan government official has been identified as one of the gunmen who took part in an Islamic extremist attack on a university that killed 148 people.

FADUMA Sakow Abdullahi and her five children tried to escape starvation in Somalia by journeying to a Kenyan refugee camp.

THE fiancee of one of the failed July 21 suicide bombers was jailed for three years for helping him to escape by dressing as a Muslim woman in a burka.