Al Shabaab recruiting youths by force, says KDF chief

Chief of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), General Samson Mwathethe addresses the media after wounded soldiers serving in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) arrived at the Wilson Airport in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 17, 2016. Al Shabaab is now forcibly recruiting youths at the Coast, KDF has said. (PHOTO: REUTERS/ THOMAS MUKOYA)

Al Shabaab is now forcibly recruiting youths at the Coast, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) has said.

Chief of Defence Forces General Samson Mwathethe said the Somali-based Islamist group has lost its appeal to the youths and is now using force to recruit them.