The attack took place in the town of Elwak, Regional Coordinator Mohamud Saleh said. Workers had been asked to leave the site because l-Shabaab
...
the personification of Somali state failure...fighters'>al-Shaboobs based in neighboring Somalia had been seen in the area a few days earlier, he said.
It was the third time quarry workers had been targeted by suspected
Mandera is next to the Somali border and has been hardest hit in recent years by an al-Shabaab campaign to avenge Kenyan troop presence in Somalia since 2011.
Kenya’s troops are part of the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
force in Somalia helping the fragile central government counter al-Shabaab’s insurgency.
Kenya has managed to stop the frequency of attacks in its capital, Nairobi, and major towns. But human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
groups say the government uses methods such as extrajudicial killings that can fuel Dire Revenge attacks.