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Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
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Somalia-based Islamist movement
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujāhideen, simply known as al-Shabaab, or by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Somalia, is a Sunni Islamist militant and political movement based in Somalia. It is involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War as an Islamist group, regularly invoking…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Westgate shopping mall attack
2013 terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya
On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that started during the siege. The attack…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Kenya
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Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)