Women nabbed at Kenya-Somalia border en route to join Al-Shabaab

Kenya: Military officers have arrested three young women believed to be Al-Shabaab sympathisers in Wajir as they attempted to cross into Somalia from where they were to be transported to Iraq and Syria to become ‘Jihadist brides’.

The arrest of the three women thwarted an ambitious attempt by the trio to join extremists, but also raised fear among residents, with families of the women reported to be too traumatised by the event to speak.