07/01/2020
Al-Shabab sends ?a message? to US with Kenya attack
NEWS ANALYSIS A little before dawn on the morning of Sunday January 5 a small column of armed militants emerged from a nearby forest to launch a deadly attack on Camp Simba, a military airstrip in Lamu, Kenya. Fighting raged for more than five hours, according to Kenya?s Daily Nation newspaper and, by the time it was over, at least six aircraft were damaged and at least eight people were dead. Five of the fatalities were gunmen aligned with al-Shabab, the Islamist militant group based in neighbouring Somalia that has committed dozens of atrocities both at home and in Kenya over the past decade. The other three confirmed deaths were of American nationals, including one soldier and two private...
