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Mugabe condemns Garissa attack
09 Apr 2015 at 15:31hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma have sent their condolences to the families of the almost 150 Kenyan students who lost their lives in the Garissa University College campus attack last week.
Last Thursday, al-Shabaab gunmen stormed the university about 200km from the Somali border and carried out a 16-hour attack .
They initially shot indiscriminately but later hunted down and killed Christian students, while sparing Muslims. The Somali group has now killed more than 400 people in Kenya since Kenyatta came to power in April 2013.
Zuma said he and Mugabe condemned the attacks in the strongest possible way.
"We are united in our condemnation of the attacks."
Mugabe has called on Africa to unite in the fight against terrorism.
Kenya responded to the Garissa attack by bombing two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, while its President Uhuru Kenyatta asked the Muslim community to help root out radicalisation at home, saying the planners and financiers of the attack were "deeply embedded" in Kenya's society.
Last Thursday, al-Shabaab gunmen stormed the university about 200km from the Somali border and carried out a 16-hour attack .
They initially shot indiscriminately but later hunted down and killed Christian students, while sparing Muslims. The Somali group has now killed more than 400 people in Kenya since Kenyatta came to power in April 2013.
"We are united in our condemnation of the attacks."
Mugabe has called on Africa to unite in the fight against terrorism.
Kenya responded to the Garissa attack by bombing two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, while its President Uhuru Kenyatta asked the Muslim community to help root out radicalisation at home, saying the planners and financiers of the attack were "deeply embedded" in Kenya's society.
Source - ewn
