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Kenya: 'Terror Groups Pose Biggest Threat to Kenya's Security'
Nation, 20 September 2017
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has singled out terrorism as the biggest threat to Kenya's national security and development. Read more »
National Intelligence Service Deputy Assistant Director Alexander Muteshi says threats are propagated by terrorist organisations like the Al-Shabaab that has its cells in neighbouring Somalia and the Islamic State group that operates in Puntland, Libya, Syria and Iraq. He has pointed out that the threats have been pushed away from the cities to the border areas.
Kenyan soldiers on guard as the erection of a security fence along the Kenya-Somalia border goes on.
A confidential police report has said that a number of Kenyans fighting for Al-Shabaab in Somalia want to return home after a fallout within the militia. Read more »
Kenya police say the man killed is Hussein Said Omar, one of the Al-Shabaab militants behind the Mpeketoni attack that claimed the lives of more than 60 people in June 2014 Read more »
Police say the attackers also torched three houses in Witu, Lamu County. This comes after the government banned the use of the Lamu-Garsen highway by passenger vehicles due to ... Read more »
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