Kenyan officials have said some 10,000 police officers will be deployed to boost security during Pope Francis’ forthcoming visit to Kenya.

At least three people have been killed in a fresh cross-border attack by Somalia-based Takfiri al-Shabab militant group in the troubled northeast of Kenya, security sources say.

Five men were charged on Thursday in connection with an attack by Somali gunmen on Garissa University in northeast Kenya that killed 148 students, the worst militant attack in the east African nation in almost two decades.

A number of police officers have lost their lives in an overnight ambush by Somalia-based al-Shabab militants in the Kenyan city of Garissa, close to the border with Somalia, sources say.

Kenyatta's spokesman said that two leaders had spoken by phone on Sunday.

At least 46 people have been killed in fierce fighting between rival ethnic groups in the troubled northwestern part of Kenya.

Kenyan authorities are questioning a legislative employee about a suspected plot to attack parliament in Nairobi, police and lawmakers said on Monday, amid concern after assaults by Islamist militants.

Kenya will on Tuesday host tripartite talks with the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Somali Government over a pact signed more than a year ago on repatriation of refugees.

An MP Tuesday sensationally claimed Majority Leader Aden Duale was in the know about the Al-Shabaab terror attack on the Garissa University College.

Kenya has called on the United Nations to close the Dadaab refugee camp housing over 600,000 Somalis in Garissa after a recent deadly attack by Somalia-based al-Shabab militants killed nearly 150 people in the eastern Kenyan town.

Garissa residents took to the streets shouting anti- Shabab slogans as local leaders want refugees returned to Somalia.

Kenyans are set to stage a rally for greater national security following a recent massacre by al-Shabab militants at a university in Garissa County.

Authorities have now confirmed the identity of one of the four slain Garissa terrorists, as Abdirahim Abdullahi, a lawyer by profession.

Nairobi has pledged to respond in "the severest ways" to the recent horrendous attack by the al-Qaeda-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab in eastern Kenya.

The Kenyan government has come under fire over its special forces’ response to a university massacre in the eastern town of Garissa that killed nearly 150 people, claims officials deny.

Al-Shabab militant group in Somalia has reportedly killed three people in the northeastern Kenyan city of Mandera, the latest in its cross-border attacks.

An attack by armed men in northeastern Kenya has left one dead and a dozen others wounded, the Kenya Red Cross says.

Hundreds have rallied in the Kenyan capital in protest at, what they describe as, the government's failure to contain growing insecurity.

Somalia-based al-Shabab militants have executed 28 people in an ambush on a bus in northeastern Kenya, policemen say.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has travelled to The Hague to attend the International Criminal Court (ICC) over charges of crimes against humanity.