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Kenya: Families of Missing Want Answers
Capital FM, 24 September 2013
Families of 64 people who are reported missing have raised serious concern over silence by the government on the current situation at the Westgate shopping mall, which was seized… Read more »
Kenya: Families of Mall Missing Seek Answers
The relatives of people reportedly missing since Saturday's Westgate Mall attack have raised serious concerns about the government's silence on their whereabouts.
Nairobi Westgate mall: Family members of those who perished in the Westgate terror attack have raised concerns over their missing kin.
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South Africa: SA Woman Missing in Kenya - Report
SAPA, 25 September 2013
A South African woman who is missing in Kenya is presumed dead, The Star reported on Wednesday. Read more »
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Kenya: 10 Bodies From Westgate Attack Yet to Be Identified
The Star, 24 September 2013
THE bodies of ten people who were killed in the Westgate Mall terrorist attack are yet to be identified at the City Mortuary, government pathologist Dr Jahnsen Oduor has said. Read more »
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Kenya: One Nakumatt Staffer Missing After Mall Siege
Capital FM, 24 September 2013
Nakumatt Holdings has confirmed that only one of their employees who was working at the Westgate branch is missing following Saturday's terrorist attack. Read more »
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Kenya: Nakuru Businessman Dies in Westgate Raid
The Star, 24 September 2013
A Nakuru family was left in mourning after the body of their 23-year-old son killed in the Westgate terror raid. ChrisPaul Ng'ang'a's body was received by relatives and friends at… Read more »
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Kenya: Extremism Beckons Kenya's Young
IPS, 25 September 2013
Ali Hassan Gitonga, 33, a recent convert to Islam from the Meru community in Kenya's Eastern Province, is said to have travelled to Somalia for training with Al-Shabaab in 2011. He… Read more »
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Kenya: Was British Woman Among Terrorists?
The Star, 24 September 2013
WITNESSES are still insisting that a woman was involved in the attacks in Westgate mall despite a government statement that all the attackers were male. Al Shabaab on its Twitter… Read more »
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Kenya: Westgate Attack Victim Buried At Kariokor Cemetery
The Star, 24 September 2013
ANJUM Chaudhry who was until his death the chief executive officer of Pegrume Telecommunication Ltd, was laid to rest at Kariokor Muslim cemetery yesterday after the 1 o'clock… Read more »
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Kenya: Nation Begins Three Days of Mourning
DW, 24 September 2013
The siege of a Nairobi mall which left over 60 people dead has come to an end. Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the nation shortly after it was over and announced there… Read more »
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Kenya: Al Shabaab Leaps to Top of Jihadist Premier League
African Arguments, 24 September 2013
Noman Benotman, President of the anti-radicalisation Quilliam Foundation, has told African Arguments that Al Shabaab's Westgate attack has put it "to the top of the premier league"… Read more »
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East Africa: Nairobi Attack Reveals Al-Qaida's Influence in Horn of Africa
VOA, 24 September 2013
The attack by al-Shabab militants on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall has raised fears that the group is broadening its aim beyond winning control of its homeland, Somalia.… Read more »
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Kenya: Confusion Lingers Following Reported End to Westgate Crisis
Sabahi, 24 September 2013
As al-Shabaab's siege of Nairobi's Westgate mall went into its fourth day, conflicting reports from Kenyan officials caused confusion and criticism over their ability to control… Read more »
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Kenya: 'White Widow' Samantha Lewthwaite Reported Linked to Westgate Attack
Sabahi, 24 September 2013
Speculation is growing that Samantha Lewthwaite, nicknamed "the white widow", daughter of a British soldier and widow of suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay, who blew himself up on a… Read more »
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Kenya: Islamists Demonstrate Their Power in Kenya
DW, 24 September 2013
The siege in Nairobi has claimed more than 60 lives. Terror organization al-Shabab is calling for the withdrawal of Kenyan troops from Somalia. Kenya is unlikely to bow to such… Read more »
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Kenya: Westgate Mall Tragedy Calls for a Measured Response
ISS, 24 September 2013
A radical military response to the dramatic terror attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi this weekend will play into the hands of the assailants. Using local police and… Read more »
InFocus
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared the mall siege, for which Al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility, over. He confirmed that 61 civilians and six security officers were ... Read more »
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A tense standoff between security forces and the militants responsible for the attack at Westgate Mall in Nairobi continues with efforts to free to the remaining hostages. More ... Read more »
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Somali militants are reported to be holding hostages in a Nairobi shopping mall after attacking shoppers, killing dozens, on Saturday. Read more »
