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Five reasons why militants are targeting Kenya's Lamu county

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par Oscar Gakuo Mwangi, Associate Professor, Political Science, National University of Lesotho

The frequency of terrorist attacks within Kenya’s Lamu County on the border with Somalia has been alarming. Frequent kidnappings there were the ostensible reason Kenya invaded Somalia in 2011. Three years later, the seaside county was the scene of a deadly attack in which 48 were killed during an Al-Shabaab siege.

Lamu is in the news again. In January this year, the government declared a dusk-to-dawn…

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