Middle East & Africa | Kenya

A murky aftermath

As the dust settles after a terrorist attack, awkward questions persist

|NAIROBI

WESTGATE, once Kenya’s smartest shopping mall, is now a ruin pored over by forensic experts. A children’s trampoline from the upstairs car-park sits atop the ground-floor rubble at the collapsed rear of the building. Buried underneath are the answers to some of the questions lingering two weeks after an attack by jihadists belonging to Somalia’s Shabab group left at least 67 people dead, according to the local Red Cross. Another 39 are still reported to be missing. The aftermath threatens to knock a hole in east Africa’s biggest economy.

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “A murky aftermath”

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