News Roundup – 23-24 September 2013
Related to the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya:
The profile of Al-Shabab in Stanford University’s Mapping Militant Organizations project
The Washington Posts’s 10 things to know about Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels al-Shabab
Last year’s International Crisis Group report on The Kenyan Military Intervention in Somalia and briefing on Kenyan Somali Islamist Radicalisation
Other news:
A new Human Rights Watch report on CAR: “I Can Still Smell the Dead”: The Forgotten Human Rights Crisis in the Central African Republic (see here for the report, and here for the press release)
Also on CAR, the ICRC says: Central African Republic: Population caught up in armed violence
Website says al-Qaida’s North Africa branch replaces commanders killed in northern Mali
Nigerians Fear Boko Haram Violence Only to Escalate
Al Qaeda-Affiliate Chief Killed By Other Rebel Fighters In Syria
Annyssa Bellal
Katharine Fortin
Rogier Bartels