Revealed: Why terror groups target Arusha

Why youth join terror groups
IPPmedia
Local politicians, clergy and academicians have expressed mixed opinions over major motives behind worldwide terrorism and the ongoing trend of the local youth recruitment in terror groups, not completely ruling out religious doctrine as source of the ...

The East African Law Society (EALS) warned yesterday that growing insecurity in Kenya could have disastrous repercussions to the business sector in the entire East African region.

The story of the masked executioner, who as “Jihadi John”, has come to embody the brutal violence, who was identified on Thursday as a British computer programmer, shows how intelligence communities failed to prove their accusations against the barbaric killer—and eventually through series of harassments turned the suspect into a notorious terrorist.

There are allegations that the Kenyan police are carrying out summary justice on people they suspect may be connected with Islamic extremism - three months after a terrorist attack on a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in which at least 67 people died.

>Three people were killed and more than 80 injured in near-simultaneous explosions in Nairobi on Sunday. The blasts targeted buses on the Thika Superhighway and were about seven minutes apart.

 Home Affairs minister Mathias Chikawe said yesterday that recurrent bomb attacks in Arusha were acts of terrorism as new details suggested that the perpetrators had a wider agenda than just targeting the tourism sector.

The First National Bank (FNB) Tanzania will this year open branches in Arusha and Mwanza.

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Terror attacks hit Lamu, Arusha
iAfrica.com
Conservation offices were torched in the gun battle outside Lamu, once a popular tourist destination in northern Kenya. AFP. Tanzania and Kenya were targeted in separate attacks in key tourist sites in the east African nations, police said on Tuesday, the ...
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Arusha police still searching for key terror suspect
Daily News
POLICE in Arusha Region still do not know the whereabouts of a local martial arts instructor, Mr Yahaya Hassan Hella, popularly known as 'Sensei,' an alleged key suspect behind a series of bomb attacks in the city. The Mianzini resident succeeded to ...