Kenya

Terrorism
Kenya's long northeastern border with Somalia was considered a security weak spot, in which poor coordination between security services and a culture of corruption that allowed anyone prepared to pay a bribe to pass unchallenged factored into its security vulnerabilities.

On November 23, 2014, members of Somalia's al-Shabaab hijacked a bus in Kenya and killed 28 non-Muslims after singling them out from the rest of the passengers. The attack was in retaliation for raids carried out by Kenyan security forces on mosques in Mombasa. The attack shocked Kenya and led to a shake-up of security ministers.

Somali Islamist militants sprayed a Kenyan bus with bullets on December 21, 2015, killing two people, but a passenger said he and fellow Muslims defied demands from the attackers to help identify Christians traveling with them. In previous attacks, al-Shabaab had often killed both Muslims and non-Muslims. The militants had demanded the withdrawal of troops from an African Union force fighting the militants in Somalia.

Trade
The World Trade Organization reached deals on agricultural export subsidies, food aid, and toher issues on December 19, 2015, capping a ministerical conference in the Kenyan capital where rich and poor countries had been split over the path of trade reform. The four-day Nairobi conference showed disagreements about the potential for success in the current Doha round of talks meant that more issues could be loaded onto the neighboring agenda. In July 2015, the first ministerial meeting in Nairobi had removed import tariffs on 201 information technology products, marking the first major global tariff-cutting deal in 19 years.