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Additional Police Reservists Being Recruited To Protect From Al-Shabaab Terrorists Coming From Somalia

January 26 2017

Kenya

More police reservists are being recruited in areas suffering from frequent attacks by the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, reports the Nation (Nairobi), citing a top police official.

The reservists will be hired in the Wajir, Mandera and Garissa counties, Joseph Boinnet, the inspector-general of police, said on Wednesday. The number of personnel to be recruited was not disclosed.

Those counties all border Somalia.

Northern Kenyan leaders have urged the central government to...

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