'Inconvenient Truths' for Kenya After Westgate Attack
Weeks after Al-Shabaab militants murdered over 60 shoppers and diners and laid waste to one of Nairobi's smartest malls, a reckoning has begun: how could an attack of such ferocious brutality happen in the heart of one of the city's wealthiest enclaves, asks
African Arguments contributor Jeremy Lind.
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Kenya:
House Committee Begins Probe On Westgate Attack Today
The Star, 7 October 2013
THE Joint parliamentary committee on the Defence and Foreign Relations and the Administration and National security will start investigations into the Westgate Mall terror attack… Read more »
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Kenya:
What Really Happened in Westgate?
The Star, 5 October 2013
Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may vastly magnify its damage by the power of horrific images. ― Lance Morrow,… Read more »
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Kenya:
Soldiers 'Repatriated' Sh300 Million From Westgate - Major Chirchir
The Star, 5 October 2013
The Kenya Defence Forces yesterday confirmed that it took money for safe keeping from businesses at the Westgate Mall. Military spokesman Emmanuel Chirchir tweeted that KDF… Read more »
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Kenya:
CCTV Shows Westgate Attackers Were in No Hurry
Capital FM, 5 October 2013
Attackers of the Westgate Shopping Mall are seen walking fearlessly with no sense of panic after executing 67 people, in the worst terror attack to have occurred in the country… Read more »
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Kenya:
Hard Questions Police Must Answer
The Star, 5 October 2013
Since 2pm of the fateful day at Westgate Mall the government has hammered the same message, "those are matters touching on security and must not be debated in public". Read more »
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Kenya:
Of Indisciplined Forces and the High Cost of CCTV Cameras
The Star, 5 October 2013
Comedy tends to follow tragedy in Kenya like a dog on a leash and the aftermath of the Westgate terror attack has proved to be no different. Days after the siege ended, tales of… Read more »
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Kenya:
We Left Behind Security Systems That Worked
The Star, 5 October 2013
Bad things hurt, whenever they happen. We are still hurting from the wounds inflicted on us in a week of bloodbath. But we have shown the world how much we mean to each other as a… Read more »
