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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...attacked a convoy of vehicles.
Interior Ministry front man Mwenda Njoka says the police vehicles had been escorting buses between Mombasa city and Lamu County and were destroyed in the attack.
Kenya’s government is battling to stop a wave of attacks by al-Shabaab fighters who say they are avenging Kenya’s deployment of troops to neighboring Somalia in 2011. Kenyan troops make up 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...
peacekeeping force in Somalia that bolsters the country’s weak government against al-Shabaab’s insurgency.
In the past two years, al-Shabaab has focused attacks on Kenyan counties that border Somalia and mainly targeted security agents.
Kenya’s government ordered police to escort vehicles on the Lamu-Mombasa road after an al-Shabaab attack last year in which a top ranking government was briefly kidnapped.
Separately, police said youth burned down a Catholic church in Marsabit County in northern Kenya after the arrest of a Moslem holy man accused by the government of radicalization.
In a statement, police said they locked away
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Guyo Gorsa, who allegedly had been involved in the recruitment of youth into al-Shabaab. Police said Guyo’s alleged involvement had been exposed by youth who were arrested while traveling to Somalia to join the murderous Moslem group.