After Westgate, ‘the Somalis and Muslims take all the blame’
In Nairobi’s ‘Little Mogadishu’ district, many people fear that Somalis will collectively be expected to shoulder the blame for the Westgate attack.
At least 10 people are killed and 70 injured in two explosions in the Kenyan capital, as Britons leave the country after a Foreign Office warning about “a high threat of terrorism”.
Since the Westgate shopping mall attacks, many Kenyans now live in fear. But the government’s anti-terror crackdown has angered many Muslims, some of whom have flocked to al-Shabaab.
Activists are launching a campaign against a polygamy law passed in the country that allows men to marry more than one woman without their existing wife’s consent.
Kibera slum is home to nearly a million people. With an average income of less than a pound a day, it is one of the poorest parts of Kenya – a poverty that is attracting western tourists.
A UK ban on khat – widely used in the Somali community – comes into force in the next few months. But there is anger in Kenya, where thousands of farmers depend on exports of the herbal stimulant.
Islamist militants from the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab group claim responsibility for a bombing attack on a hotel in Somalias capital, Mogadishu, in which 11 people have died.
David Cameron’s plans to make it harder to stop new arrivals from the EU getting out-of-work benefits for three months in a bid crack down on immigration have been criticised by a top EU official.
Hundreds of protesters march through Nairobi to demand justice for a 16-year-old gang rape victim after her six attackers were ordered by police to cut grass as their punishment.
Last month’s terror attack at the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya showed how media-savvy al-Shabaab is. As Jamal Osman writes, the jihadist group’s media office is small but determined.
Harrowing footage emerges of the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall – showing gunmen chatting on mobile phones before spraying bullets at terrified shoppers. Warning – contains distressing footage.
The Kenya military confirms two Westgate mall attackers exclusively named by Channel 4 News were responsible for the atrocity which killed 67 people last month.
A night-time raid on the Somali coast struck at a stronghold of terrorist group al-Shabaab. The group allege that the SAS were involved and that one SAS officer died in the fight.
Reports that some of the al-Shabaab terrorists, who attacked the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, escaped are likely to be true, writes Jamal Osman. Now they can expect a life of hero worship.
Nearly 40 people are still missing following the four-day terrorist attack on a Nairobi shopping centre, the Kenyan Red Cross says, despite the government’s claims to the contrary.
In Nairobi’s ‘Little Mogadishu’ district, many people fear that Somalis will collectively be expected to shoulder the blame for the Westgate attack.