EDITORIAL: Terror: Time to come together and fight the militants
Somali police force attend an Amisom handover ceremony of the Mogadishu stadium. Amisom had used the stadium as one of its base since 2011. PHOTO | AFP
This week’s sixth anniversary of the Westgate Mall terrorist attack in Nairobi that left more than 70 dead and hundreds more injured, comes at an uncertain time for the future of peace enforcement operations in Somalia.
When four masked gunmen forced their way into the shopping complex on the afternoon of Saturday, September 21, 2013, the attack was almost immediately claimed by the Somalia-based terror group Al Shabaab.
