Marginalised and jobless, desperate young men in Nairobi slums provide fertile ground for al-Shabab.
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NYPD report sheds light on mall attack misinformation, while new laws bring the press in line.
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Members of Nairobi’s Kenyan-Somali community share stories of fear and discrimination.
A plan to reintegrate some of the 600,000 Somalis in Kenya worries refugees and some local businesses.
Kenyan-Somalis offer an insight into the daily challenges they encounter.
Communities that have bought into conservation and tourism risk losing it all to ‘new breed of poachers’.
Up-close with Kenya’s military as it lays siege to Nairobi mall where al-Shabab gunmen hold shoppers hostage.
Security forces from Nigeria and Uganda have been helping Somali forces to oust al-Shabab fighters from the capital.
