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How radical Islamists have over time turned Lamu into terrorists’ playground

Lamu, Kenya: Sunday’s attack on Mpeketoni was the latest assault in the Coastal region blamed on Al-Shabaab and other Islamist terror groups.

Mpeketoni lies in Lamu County, a historically unstable and insecure region with an irredentist past in the defunct Northern Frontier District.

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