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IntelBrief: Kenya: Bringing Terror Home

October 19, 2012
Somali youth in Kenya's Eastleigh neighborhood

In the eleventh of a series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton draws attention to police persecution of Kenya’s Somali population and warns that a homegrown radicalization problem is brewing. She cautions that the military invasion of Somalia in October 2011, continued harassment by police of Somali residents in Eastleigh, and citizen reprisals against Somalis for terror attacks are likely to spur the radicalization of Somali and Muslim youth—as seen with the case of Nairobi’s Muslim Youth Centre—and that could threaten Kenyan and US national security interests in the region. If the Kenyan government works to improve its relations with youth, Muslims and Somali Kenyans in particular, it will be better posed to tackle the problem of extremism by integrating Somalis as the eyes and ears of its counter-terrorism efforts.

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Photo credit: In2eastafrica.

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