Al-Shabaab, the terrorist group that attacked Nairobi’s Westgate shopping centre, continues its campaign against the Kenyan government with attacks on border towns.
Across Nairobi anger is growing at security services failures as funerals take place for a number of the 67 known victims of the attack at the Westgate mall.
Interpol issues a “red notice” – the global policing equivalent of a “wanted poster” – for Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called “white widow”, at the request of the Kenyan government.
Exclusive: Channel 4 News learns the alleged leader of the Nairobi shopping mall attack was born a Christian in Kenya and is a former member of the country’s special forces.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud tells Channel 4 News that al-Shabaab members are not allied to one particular country – and Somalis are no more radicalised than other nationalities.
A Kenyan minister says he expects the death toll from the Nairobi attack will not rise significantly, and that only al-Shabaab terrorists will be found in the rubble of the Westgate shopping centre.
British Somalis have been under pressure for years. Whenever an Islamist-related attack takes place anywhere they feel vulnerable. The Kenyan siege will add to their fear.
The Westgate siege is over. But with reports that some of the al-Shabaab fighters could still be in the mall and conflicting updates from officials and witnesses, what do we know about the militants?
Lindsey Hilsum
Were they all Somali? Was there a woman? Are all the terrorists and hostages dead? So many questions remain unanswered even as the Kenyan President declares the Westgate siege over.
Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Dheere tells Channel 4 News reporter Jamal Osman no women were involved in the Nairobi shopping mall attack – and insists “our boys are fighting for Islam”.
Kenya’s President Kenyatta says the military operation at the Nairobi shopping mall has ended in defeat for al-Shabaab. But the jihadist group, which killed 67 in the four-day siege, claims victory.
People hid behind boxes, barricaded kitchen doors with fridges, dragged children into dental clinics, and even confronted the attackers unarmed.
From leafy Buckinghamshire to suspected involvement in the Nairobi shopping centre terror attack, Channel 4 News looks at the life of Samantha Lewthwaite.
Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum in Nairobi reports on the continuing terror attack at the Westgate mall, as the security forces close in.
How Suveer Sachdeva, a dentist in the Westgate mall, ran back into the mall as the gunshots started to rescue his father. He describes what he saw and how he helped to save five lives..