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| Armed police from the General Service Unit take cover behind a wall during a bout of gunfire outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya |
In the 2013 report on country terrorism that was just released by her government, the US stated that some of the Kenyan civil society organizations worked actively to address the drivers of radicalization and violent extremism in Kenya, often with her(USA) assistance and other international partners.
“But the Government of Kenya is not engaged in significant efforts in such areas,” stated the report.
The USA, which regards Kenya in the report as an antedote in the fight against al-Shabaab and Al-Qaida, added that the September 2013 al-Shabaab attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall focused the world’s attention on Kenya and the East African country’s counter-terrorism efforts.
The report outlines that the Westgate attack highlighted significant shortcomings in the Kenyan security forces’ response.
About 70 people died during the attack.
The report further criticized Kenya’s inability to release a report on the Westgate attack months after the attack despite the promise made earlier on by the executive to release a report the soonest.
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“President Uhuru Kenyatta announced his intention to appoint a commission of inquiry into Westgate’s lapses and how we can avoid them in the future but no such report had been released publicly by year’s end,” stated the report.
The report further criticized the government for not involving the civil society in its efforts to counter the financing of terrorism in Kenya.
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- CAJ News
It however lauded the efforts that the country, kenya, had taken in this regard and of note by scrutinizing transactions through the popular mobile money transfer, M-Pesa.
“The Financial Reporting Centre-monitored mobile money transactions to a degree, especially the popular Safaricom M-pesa service, but did not engage with NGOs to file suspicious transaction reports,” it nonetheless stated. – CAJ News
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