09/04/2015
Somalia puts bounty on al-Shabab leaders
9 April 2015 From the section Africa Al-Shabab says it is at war with Kenya Somalia's government has placed a bounty on the top 11 leaders of the militant Islamist al-Shabab group. Top of the list is its chief Ahmed Diriye with $250,000 (£169,000) offered for information leading to his capture. A list of their names, nicknames and origins was issued after a cabinet meeting - and a week after al-Shabab's attack on a Kenyan university. Official figures put the number of dead in the raid on Garissa University College at 148 - most of them students. The al-Qaeda-affiliated militants have promised a long, gruesome war against Kenya, which has troops in the...
