Terrorism in Kenya

Terrorism in Kenya
Part of the Somali Civil War

Omar Nabhan during the Westgate shopping mall attack on 21 September 2013, where 71 were killed
Date7 August 1998 – present
Location
Kenya
Status Ongoing
Belligerents

Kenya

Supported by:

United States

Islamist terror groups:
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen

Local gangs and insurgent groups:

Mungiki

Many terrorist attacks have occurred in Kenya during the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1980, the Jewish-owned Norfolk hotel was attacked by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1998, the US embassy was bombed in Nairobi, as was the Israeli-owned Paradise hotel in 2002 in Mombasa. In 2013, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab killed 67 people at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall. There have also been many other attacks.

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