Al-Shabab kills five Kenyan security personnel in ambush
Five Kenyan security personnel have been killed while on patrol near the Somalia border in Mandera county by the armed group al-Shabab.
Kenya has partnered with Somali authorities to contain the group since 2011, when Kenyan troops entered Somalia, and the group has carried out repeated cross-border attacks in both Kenya and Ethiopia since then.
Samira Gaid, a regional security analyst at Balqiis Insights, told Al Jazeera that the said cross-border attacks have long been “a deliberate part of al-Shabab’s strategy”, dating to Kenya’s 2011 intervention in Somalia.
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