Garissa University Attack: The Problems Plaguing Kenya’s Security Efforts
Build a wall the length of the border with Somalia. Recruit and train up thousands of new security officers. Give them better tactics and equipment.
Kenya’s politicians and public have struggled with these ideas over and over.
But the blood of 147 people slaughtered and 79 more injured, when Al-Shabaab opened fire at a college campus in Garissa on Thursday, has them debating them with renewed vigor.
Many Kenyans had believed that security improved enough since Al-Shabaab held Nairobi’s Westgate Mall under siege for four days in September 2013, resulting in the deaths of 67 people.
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