At Kenya’s Westgate Mall in Nairobi, the capital of the country, a moment of silence was held to commemorate the tenth anniversary of a terrorist attack that claimed 67 lives.
On September 13, 2013, four heavily armed militants from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab group stormed the upscale shopping center and took control of the building for four days.
The attack revealed how poorly inter-agency security teams coordinated their responses to terror attacks.
The siege ended when the four gunmen were killed by security agents.
Although four people were charged with aiding the militants, details about the attackers are still vague.
A new counterterrorism strategy involving private security guards was recently announced by the government.
It plans to train more than 900,000 people and give each of them a security force number that will be entered into a centralized database.
Source-BBC
