Somalia’s deadly chaos is spreading across the border into Kenya, where dry land is no longer a refuge from the hostage takers who infest the failed state to the north, explains Margot Kiser.

Authorities in Kenya have arrested a security guard in connection with the kidnapping of a disabled Frenchwoman by militants from Somalia.

Somali pirates have kidnapped a French woman from an exclusive resort island in northern Kenya, near the Somali border, according to an official.

The Kenyan military has joined the hunt for a British woman kidnapped after her husband was shot dead as they holidayed at an exclusive beach resort.