Lives are at risk in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa after thousands were exposed to lead.
![Deserted premises of the closed lead smelting plant [Mohammed Yusuf/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014811143537476734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Lives are at risk in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa after thousands were exposed to lead.
![Deserted premises of the closed lead smelting plant [Mohammed Yusuf/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014811143537476734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Somali refugees arrested in counter-terror crackdown forced to bribe police despite having proper identification papers.
![Kenyan trader says detainees bribed their way to freedom [Mohammed Yusuf/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20148595416895621_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Controversial police crackdown on ‘terrorist’ suspects has many concerned on Kenya’s coast.
![Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, known as 'Makaburi', stands inside the dock at a Law Court in Nairobi in 2010 [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/201310229617739734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Leaked intelligence file indicates top leaders knew of ‘increasing threat of terrorism’ days before mall assault.
![Questions as to who knew what and when are being asked amid the fallout from the Westgate mall attack [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013929152639826734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Counselors say hundreds of Westgate mall siege victims have sought treatment after their ordeal.

Three days after the Nairobi mall siege began, Somalis in the capital say they fear retaliation.
