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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:18
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday night declared that the four-day-long siege of an upscale mall in the capital by Islamist militants has ended with the deaths of five militants and 11 in custody. He announced three days of mourning for the more than 60 people killed in the attack, a death toll that is expected to rise with the recovery of more bodies from the mall, he said.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:21
Kenyan forces are securing the Nairobi shopping centre attacked by suspected al-Shabab militants, as the stand-off enters its fourth day.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:35
Barack Obama offered security support to Kenya on Monday, as authorities in Washington investigated reports that American citizens may have been involved in the terrorist attack on a shopping mall that killed at least 62 people.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:41
U.S. forces stationed in Africa are prepared to provide military support to Kenyan forces battling al Qaeda-linked extremists in the country's capital.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:56
Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes on the recent attack in Kenya.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:04
A carefully choreographed assault on Kenya’s most upscale shopping mall was described by U.S. counterterrorism officials Monday as evidence that the militant group al-Shabab has turned its energies toward regional attacks after losing power and territory in its home base of Somalia.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:06
Marginalized in Somalia by Kenyan, Ethiopian and other African military forces, al-Shabab tried to show that it was still a potent instrument of terror by striking cruelly in Nairobi. Since Kenyans had helped significantly to overcome al-Shabab’s strongholds in Kismayu and Merca, in southern Somalia, al-Shabab attacked Nairobi, Kenya’s soft security underbelly, instead of attempting to battle Kenya’s 4,000-strong soldiers in Somalia itself.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:07
Al-Shabab, the Somali group that has claimed responsibility for the began as a group fighting inside its homeland. But it has evolved into an al-Qaida affiliate that draws members from other countries and views Somalia as a front in the war against the West.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:09
Following a deadly terrorist attack in Kenya, the Uganda Police have taken over security at key public places, especially shopping malls in Kampala.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:11
A spokeswoman for the United Nations mission in Central African Republic says the government is sending a delegation to the east of the country this week to assess reports that fighters with the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group are disarming.