Garissa (Somali: Gaarrisa Arabic: قارسا) is the capital of Garissa County, Kenya. It is situated in the former North Eastern Province. The Tana River, which rises in Mount Kenya east of Nyeri, flows through Garissa.

I salute the people of Garissa and the Nation of Kenya. And welcome you to Garissa County. ‘Home of the Hirola’. The county has unique features, challenges and opportunities which we vowed to take up and tackle.

Garissa County is a county in Kenya located in Eastern Kenya bordering Somalia to the East, Wajir County and Isiolo County to the North, Tana River County to the West, Lamu County to the South and the Indian ocean. Its capital and largest urban area is Garissa.

Jun 19, 2019 · On 3 April 2015, four gunmen stormed Kenya's Garissa University College and began firing indiscriminately. The attackers singled out and shot those identified as Christians as they roamed from...

Apr 3, 2015 · “It is a very sad day for Kenya,” Interior Ministry Joseph Nkaissery said of the carnage at Garissa University College. The death toll is the highest in a terror attack on Kenyan soil since...

Garissa, town, east-central Kenya. The town is a market centre situated on the Tana River, and its industries process food, beverages, and tobacco products; manufactures include plastic containers.

Before independence from British rule, what we now know as Garissa County was not, at least formally, in Kenya. It was, before carving up of the colonially enforced Northern Frontier District (NFD), part of the Greater Somalia – a long-contested, obscure, region aiming to unite all ethnic Somalis in the Horn of Africa.

Apr 8, 2015 · Only a few kilometers away, 147 people – mostly students – were brutally massacred when Al-Shabaab militants invaded the campus in Garissa, a town in northeastern Kenya.

Both this war and domestic counter-terror measures created a context in which al-Shabaab could and would call on all Kenyan Muslims – including those in Garissa – to take arms against the Kenyan government. So how did local people interpret and react to these developments?

Apr 2, 2015 · The Kenyan authorities said that around dawn, the attackers stormed Garissa University College in the town of Garissa, about 90 miles from the Somali border. Though the college is in a...