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Al Shabaab now targeting street families

Mombasa County Commissioner Nelson Marwa noted that the street families have now become a soft target given that no one reports missing cases of these boys.

Security officials in Mombasa Friday released a report indicating that the Somali-based Al-Shabaab terror group was recruiting street boys.

The officials said that some of the street boys aged between 12 and 15 who once scavenged on the streets of Mombasa have been traced to Somalia.

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