Kenya security Westgate attack warnings ignored: report

Survivors tell the story of Nairobi's Westgate siege

Kenya is marking a year since the attack by suspected Islamists on Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre, in which at least 67 people were killed.

The trial of four men charged in connection with Kenya’s Westgate mall massacre was hit Tuesday by allegations from defence lawyers that the suspects have been assaulted in detention.

The weekend commemorations of the first anniversary of the Westgate Mall revealed that it would take a long while yet for the pain to go away.

BBC News explains the background to the Westgate mall attack - and its consequences - in a 60-seconds.

Kenya is marking a year since the attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre, in which at least 67 people were killed.

Kenya's security sector grows in aftermath of Westgate attack

Kenyan photojournalist, Mr Joseph Mathenge, was all smiles as he received the 2014 CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award on Saturday night.

Tyler Hicks, a New York Times staff photographer based in Nairobi, won a Pulitzer on April 14 2014 for his breaking news photos of the Westgate Mall attack by Al-Shabaab on September 21, 2013. Photo: Courtesy New York Times PrevNext Coverage by the New York Times of the September 21, 2013 Al-Shabaab attack on the upscale Westgate mall in Nairobi has won the New York Times a Pulitzer in the Breaking News Photography category. The New York Times, a...