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Kenya plans offensive against Islamist militants in coastal forest

A bush baby in Boni forest. Nairobi says Al-Shabaab militia carry out attacks along its northern Coast before retreating to hideouts in Boni forest, a 160 kilometre-reserve at the Kenya-Somalia border that is also a sanctuary for elephants. PHOTO | FILE |

Kenya plans to launch a military offensive against Islamist militants who have set up bases in a remote forest at the northern tip of its Indian Ocean coastline bordering Somalia, a police official said on Monday.

Nairobi says Somalia's al Shabaab group has carried out attacks along its northern Coast before retreating to hideouts in Boni forest, a 160 kilometre-reserve that is also a sanctuary for elephants.

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