The #Westgate_Mall photographs
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It has been about two weeks since the attacks at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, and as the news reports about it and its aftermath quiet, the presence of its photographs are still strong. They appear on as varied a website The Telegraph and TotallyCoolPix.com. I first learned of the attacks through these photographs, scrolling through photographs that […]
#al-Shebab claims 137 hostages were killed in Kenyan mall siege
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Kenyan paramilitaries drive towards the Westgate mall on 24 September 2013 in Nairobi. (Photo: AFP Simon Maina)
Somalia’s al-Shebab insurgents claimed Wednesday 137 hostages they had seized died in a Nairobi shopping mall siege, figures impossible to verify and higher than the number of people officially registered as missing. The al-Qaeda-linked fighters, in a message posted on Twitter, said “137 hostages who were being held by the mujahideen” had died. They also (...)
#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 (...)
At least 68 dead as #Kenya mall standoff continues
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A severely wounded man is rescued by Kenyan troops at the Westgate Mall on 21 September 2013 in Nairobi. (Photo: AFP - James Quest)
Islamist militants were holding hostages on Sunday at a shopping mall in Nairobi, where at least 68 people were killed in an attack by the Somali #al-Shebab group, which demanded that Kenya pull troops back from its neighbor. Brief volleys of gunfire and a blast interrupted hours of stalemate. A Reuters correspondent saw security (...)