Westgate Mall

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

Africa Staff Reporter - 3 Oct 2018

Containing Al-Shabab in Kenya doesn't directly reduce the group's standing inside Somalia

Al-Shabab locks Kenya into an endless circle of death

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 7 Nov 2014

Kenya’s increasingly unpopular war in Somalia is in its fourth year and there is no easy way out.

Little is black and white about Islam

Article bogdan TagDiv - 18 Sep 2014

When we commemorate the Westgate massacre in Nairobi, Kenya, we must not conflate the religion with extremism.

Westgate mall terrorists argued over shooting children

Africa Staff Reporter - 6 Mar 2014

Gunmen involved in the Nairobi shopping mall attack were in apparent disagreement over whether they should kill women and small children.

‘White Widow’ writes love poem to Osama bin Laden

Article bogdan TagDiv - 22 Oct 2013

Investigators have discovered a poem written by British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, addressed to deceased al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Kenya govt says it has recovered gunmen bodies

Africa Sapa Ap - 21 Oct 2013

The Kenyan government says it believes it has recovered the remains of the four gunmen involved in the Westgate Mall shootings.

Remains delivered to morgue following Westgate siege

Africa Sapa Ap - 18 Oct 2013

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.

US captures suspected senior al-Qaeda figure in Libya

Article Reuters - 6 Oct 2013

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.

Kenya names four Westgate Mall attackers from CCTV footage

Africa Reuters - 5 Oct 2013

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.

Fires of terrorism still spark in Westgate mall’s cinders

Africa Staff Reporter - 4 Oct 2013

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.

‘White Widow’ documents being investigated, says govt

Article Sapa - 3 Oct 2013

The circumstances around the fraudulent acquisition of an SA passport by a terror suspect are still being investigated, says a government official.

On the trail of al-Shabab’s Kenyan recruitment ‘pipeline’

Africa Staff Reporter - 2 Oct 2013

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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