Westgate

Customers enter the re-opened Westgate shopping mall, in Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 18, 2015. Kenya's Westgate shopping mall reopened for the first time since al Shabaab gunmen stormed the mall killing at least 67 people in September 2013.

Although Westgate mall has re-opened in Nairobi, the terrorist threat in Kenya may be getting more unpredictable

December 7, 2015
Conflict

Two years after a horrific and chaotic terrorist incident left 67 dead and hundreds wounded, Nairobi's Westgate Mall is open again for Christmas shoppers. But the rise of ISIS has Kenyan authorities worried about changes among terrorist tactics in East Africa.

Although Westgate mall has re-opened in Nairobi, the terrorist threat in Kenya may be getting more unpredictable
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Arts, Culture & Media
What People in Nairobi's Kibera Slum Make of the Westgate Mall Attack

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