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Remember the attack on Kenya was reported it here, well the Kenyan government as taken measures. Kenya’s government on Thursday announced a 60-day dusk to dawn curfew in the northeastern town of Mandera, hit by two deadly terrorist attacks in three weeks. Interior minister Joseph Nkaissery issued the order two days after Shabaab militants killed 12 people at a hotel in Mandera town on Tuesday. He said the curfew, from 6:30 pm to 6:30 am would begin on Thursday and remain in place until December 27. It would be enforced along a 20 kilometre (12 mile) buffer zone of towns and territory reaching to the Somalia border. This week’s attack was the second in Mandera in less than three weeks, with both claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group. The Shabaab has fought to overthrow the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu since 2007, but turned its sights on Kenya when the army was sent into Somalia in 2011 to fight the Islamic insurgents. Since then the militants have t...

Not more than twelve people have been killed in an extremist attack targeting non-Muslims in Mandera County near Kenya's border with Somalia. Mohamed Saleh, Mandera's regional commander, said that gunmen from Somali-based extremist group al-Shabab are suspected of carrying out the attack on the Bisharo Guest House. Al-Shabab has vowed retribution on Kenya for sending troops into Somalia since 2011 to fight the militants who are waging an insurgency against Somalia's weak, Western-backed government. Kenyan security forces have managed to stop the wave of Al-Shabab's attacks in major cities that have killed hundreds over the past few years. However, Mandera County remains a volatile area. Al-Shabab militants hijacked a bus in Mandera on November 2014, and killed 28 non-Muslims on board. In December 2014 they killed 36 quarry workers. Credits: Belfast Telegraph.