Our sons need forgiveness, not death

A poster along Nyerere avenue in Mombasa County on Thursday April 16, 2015. The Poster bearing pictures of the alleged most wanted eight terror suspects has been placed along Mombasa Island streets by the National Police Service. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]

On January 15, 2016 Mohammed Awadh left Mombasa with three of his friends for their home in Kwa Jiwa in Malindi, some 115 kilometres away.

He, like the rest of his friends, had never been home in close to three years. But they were convinced that Kwa Jiwa, the sprawling settlement on the edge of town, was the only safe space left for them.