Kenya to respond to al-Shabab attack in ‘severest’ manner

‘Nairobi has pledged to respond in “the severest ways” to the recent horrendous attack by the al-Qaeda-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab in eastern Kenya.

On Thursday, four militants from the group killed 148 people, 142 of them students, and wounded at least 79 at the Garissa university after a day-long siege.

“Our forefathers bled and died for this nation and we will do everything to defend our way of life,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a speech from the State House in the country’s capital on Saturday.’

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