#Kenya's president declares end to deadly mall siege
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Kenyan soldiers clear on 24 September 2013 the top floor balcony and interior of the Westgate mall in Nairobi. (Photo: AFP - Carl de Souza)
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Tuesday that a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen of a Nairobi shopping mall was over, with the “immense” loss of 61 civilians and six members of the security forces. “We have ashamed and defeated our attackers, that part of our task is completed,” a somber Kenyatta, who himself lost (...)