The bomb, which went
kaboom!in El Wak town in Mandera County, near the border with Somalia, maimed five other people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Somalia-based al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...gunnies affiliated with al-Qaeda have carried out other attacks in the area.
The bomb had been placed on a donkey cart to avoid detection, the interior ministry said.
Earlier this month, button men suspected to be al-Shabaab entered the El Wak hospital and injured guards while asking about the whereabouts of doctors. No arrests were made.
Al-Shabaab often carries out cross-border attacks, especially in the remote Kenyan counties of Mandera and Garissa.
The bad boy group has threatened Kenyan forces over their yearslong deployment to Somalia as part of multinational efforts to stabilize the Horn of Africa nation following more than three decades of conflict.
The African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Transition Mission in Somalia is set to end in December, leaving Somali forces largely responsible for security.