VIDEO: Wreaths to mark Westgate mall attack

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

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.

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...

Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall, in which 67 people were killed in an attack by al-Shabab militants, has reopened.

The Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, which was the target of a terror attack nearly two years ago, is due to reopen on Saturday.

A year on from the assault by Islamist militants on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, Kenyans still have questions about the four-day siege and its aftermath.

>The trial has opened of four men charged in connection with the massacre at Kenya’s Westgate mall, an attack claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab insurgents.