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A rare descriptive article on African urbanization and in The Daily Telegraph too. The dilemma is acute now, let alone in the future:...

IMHO a good review of why, although from a faraway armchair/ It ends:
Link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46921249

A topical commentary on Al-Shabaab in Somalia, two good maps of activity in 2017 and 2018. This comment explains why they retain popular support:...

Citing an anonymous insider The Sun (UK) reports and later BBC News:
Link:https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8207170/nairobi-hotel-attack-kenya-sas-terrorists/

The SF operator appears in the BBC footage too:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-46881687/nairobi-dusit-hotel-attack-explosions-gunfire-and-rescue-operation

Kenya has many problems, including a predicting doubling of its population and of course its politics. As shown in this BBC News report:
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41136478

Away...

A "broad brush" article on the COIN / CT campaign underway in part of rural north-east Kenya, on the border with...

An update from FP on the Westgate attack:http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/20/nairobi-kenya-westgate-mall-attack-al-shabab/?

Some new details, mainly on the individual experiences; the lack of an...

Another commentary on events by a Kenyan student living in the USA at the moment; the title suggests a wider viewpoint than Kenya 'Kenya: Five Things About Al-Shabaab and the Somalia...

The BBC today reported that:
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32194722

It is noteworthy that the longer attack and siege at Westgate Mall, in Nairobi, September 2013, was far more...

Africa works in different ways. A detailed report and explanation for the inter-communal, heavily armed cattle rustling in the Northern Frontier...

A report based on a human rights NGO report, which in places take one's breath away, but this is Africa:


The story wonders aloud what impact UK aid has...

No, not a religious war, although that is topical and maybe a thought. Far more valuable is to ensure the large Somali diaspora, including refugees, many living in the Nairobi suburb of Eastleigh,...

A Kenyan student now @ Kings Collerge, with NGO experience, has a short article 'Learning from the neighbours: How to win Kenya’s war on terror'. It is of value as it is by a...

Clearly much has happened in Kenya since the last post in 2012. There is a seperate post on the September 2013 Westgate Mall attack (also a SWJ...

An op-ed in the NYT by a Kenyan community worker and worth a read, familiar themes, so no surprises.

It ends with:
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No real surprises here IMHO in a breathless story:

Link:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/10/inside-the-nypd-s-report-on-the-kenya-shopping-mall-massacre.html

I would ask does such...

Clint Watts asks 'Was Kenya Westgate Attack More AQAP/AQ Central Than Shabaab?'. Link: http://selectedwisdom.com/?p=1164

I am not an expert, let alone well read on the presence of sadism in Jihadist violence, but this passage simply did not sound truthful:

So I contacted an Indian friend, a Mumbai resident, who...

Yes, we invariably forget terrorism is a tactic which is armed propaganda.

I increasingly feel that much of the propaganda is aimed within the group, to maintain itself and to the tiny fraction...

Now the NYT reports, after a "leak" that:

Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/world/africa/mall-attack-also-involved-kenyans-official-says.html?smid=tw-bna

I think the allegation that Turkish SF were involved is interesting. Turkey has of late been pushing its influence and activity in Mogadishu, with airlinks, NGO activity and the like - with a...

The cleric interviewed by Peter Taylor (see Post 21) was murdered last night outside Mombasa, in a mystery shooting; the second such shooting of a radical Kenyan...

Two pieces by Aidan Hartley, a white Kenyan reporter, in The Spectator. The first is an account of two white Kenyan survivors, which is grim reading.

From the penultimate paragraph an optimistic...

Stephen Tankel adds his analysis:http://warontherocks.com/2013/10/keeping-score-in-the-war-on-al-qaeda/