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When Salama Ali started investigating the disappearance of her two younger brothers last year, she made an awful discovery: not only were radicalised young Kenyan men leaving to join the Al Shabaab militants in neighbouring Somalia, but women were being seized and trafficked by the group as sex slaves.
Salama’s search for information about her brothers had to be carried out quietly and confidentially as any hint of a connection with the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab could arouse the suspicion of the security forces.
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