Kenyan policemen walk at the scene of an explosion in Gikomba on the outskirts of Nairobi’s business district where twin blasts claimed at least ten lives on Friday. Ten people were killed and over 70 wounded when two bomb attacks in a busy market took place in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the latest in a wave of unrest blamed on Islamist militants. PHOTO I AFP
New York, Nairobi. The magnitude of the terror threat facing Kenya was exposed on Saturday after it emerged that the US ambassador had requested extra security and will reduce the size of staff working at the embassy.
Mr Robert Godec Saturday, in a statement, maintained that the embassy would remain open for normal operations and there were no plans to close it down.
But an Associated Press report said Mr Godec had sent a letter to the more than 1,300 embassy staff on Friday telling them that he would reduce the embassy’s “overall footprint” in Kenya by reducing the number of Americans in Nairobi. Associated Press is a respected American news agency.
On Saturday, Mr Godec said his foremost interest was to protect American citizens and to keep them informed, which is the most important responsibility of every US ambassador and embassy. […]
