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Africa Horn
Somalia calls for closer security ties after Kenya massacre
2015-04-04
Garissa, Kenya -- Somalia and Kenya must boost security cooperation between them, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Friday, as he offered his condolences a day after "barbaric" Islamist gunmen massacred 147 students.
This assumes that the Kenyans want more ties with you. I suspect they want rather less...
Mohamud said he mourned the "lives of innocent students" killed in the university in the northeastern Kenyan town of Garissa, offering his "condolences to the families of those who have died in this attack by the merciless terrorists."

Masked gunmen from Somalia's Shebab Islamist group killed the Kenyan students Thursday in a day-long college campus siege, the country's deadliest attack since the 1998 US embassy bombings. All four of the gunmen wore suicide vests packed with explosives, detonating themselves in huge blasts as the dramatic assault finally ended after some 16 hours.

The attack was claimed by Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab fighters, the same insurgents who carried out the Westgate shopping mall massacre in Nairobi in September 2013, when four gunmen killed at least 67 people in a four-day siege.

Shebab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told AFP the gunmen had taken non-Muslims hostage, and that their mission had been "to kill those who are against the Shebab."
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Posted by: Besoeker   2015-04-04 17:50  

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