...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...The attack occurred on Saturday around 7:30 pm (1630 GMT) in the villages of Juhudi and Salama in Lamu county, which borders Somalia, the police source said.
"Five people were killed. The victims were slashed and there are others who had their heads chopped off."
Resident Hassan Abdul said that "women were locked in the houses and the men ordered out, where they were tied with ropes and butchered."
A secondary school student was among the five people killed, Abdul said, adding that "all those killed were slashed and some of them had been beheaded."
Another local resident, Ismail Hussein, said that the hard boyz stole food supplies before leaving, firing their arms into the air.
Kenya first sent troops into Somalia in 2011 to combat the al-Qaeda-affiliated hard boyz and is now a major contributor of troops to an 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...
military operation against the group. But it has suffered a string of retaliatory assaults, including a bloody siege at the Westgate mall in Nairobi in 2013 that cost 67 lives and an attack on Garissa University in 2015 that killed 148 people.
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