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Five years after Westgate, Al-Shabab is weakened but not yet defeated

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Containing Al-Shabab in Kenya doesn't directly reduce the group's standing inside Somalia
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Al-Shabab locks Kenya into an endless circle of death

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Kenya’s increasingly unpopular war in Somalia is in its fourth year and there is no easy way out.
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Little is black and white about Islam

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When we commemorate the Westgate massacre in Nairobi, Kenya, we must not conflate the religion with extremism.
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Westgate mall terrorists argued over shooting children

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Gunmen involved in the Nairobi shopping mall attack were in apparent disagreement over whether they should kill women and small children.
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‘White Widow’ writes love poem to Osama bin Laden

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Investigators have discovered a poem written by British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, addressed to deceased al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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Kenya govt says it has recovered gunmen bodies

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The Kenyan government says it believes it has recovered the remains of the four gunmen involved in the Westgate Mall shootings.
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Remains delivered to morgue following Westgate siege

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Following an attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall in September, officials in Kenya say two boxes of human remains were delivered to its city morgue.
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US captures suspected senior al-Qaeda figure in Libya

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An alleged senior member of al-Qaeda has been captured in Libya after US forces launched raids in the country and Somalia over the weekend.
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Kenya names four Westgate Mall attackers from CCTV footage

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On Saturday Kenya's military spokesman named four men who are alleged to have been involved in the attack, which killed at least 67 people.
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Fires of terrorism still spark in Westgate mall’s cinders

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The Israeli-owned mall, which opened in 2007, was a fantasy land that insulated its visitors from the reality of other, poorer people's lives.
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‘White Widow’ documents being investigated, says govt

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The circumstances around the fraudulent acquisition of an SA passport by a terror suspect are still being investigated, says a government official.
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On the trail of al-Shabab’s Kenyan recruitment ‘pipeline’

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The BBC's Peter Taylor reports on the Kenyan recruitment network, which delivers would-be jihadists to be used on missions by al-Shabab in Somalia.
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Covering the Westgate shooting: Smoke and sadness

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Reporting on the terror attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya was a blur of smoke, terror and confusion, writes Robyn Kriel.
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Al-Shabab: We will strike Kenyans where it hurts

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Militant group al-Shabab, who have claimed responsibility for the attack on Westgate mall, have threatened to step up militant attacks against Kenya.
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Why Kenya should be furious with SA

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Jacob Zuma's good-news philosophy is costing us lives, writes Verashni Pillay, in the wake of the Kenya attack and the release of the crime stats.
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