Kenya blocked UN anti-terrorism team tracking Al-Shabaab, says report

Kenya Defence Forces' troops patrol the streets of Fafadun township. A report has said Kenya was frustrating the work of a UN team that has been tracking Al-Shabaab, piracy and violations of an arms embargo on Somalia. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

Terrorists planted an explosive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi last year, according to the latest United Nations report tracking the activities of Al-Shabaab terror networks in the Horn of Africa.

Kenya has never publicly acknowledged that an improvised explosive device (IED) was to blame in the security scare at the airport last year, but the UN says the bomb was an attempt by the terror group to forment fear in the country. The bomb scare precipitated the arrest of the Third Secretary in Somalia’s Kenyan embassy Ilyas Yussuf Warsame and five other unnamed people.