Nairobi court found 2 men guilty of helpful al-Shabaab militants in 2019 hotel attack
Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Two Kenyans are charged with promoting a 2019 attack on a luxury hotel complex that will be convicted on Thursday and sentenced next month.
Judge Diana Kavedza ruled in a court in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, that prosecutors proved that Hussein Mohamed Abdille Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali sent money and provided fake identification documents for militants killed in the Dusitd2 Hotel Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece Complece
Al-Shabab, a militant group linked to Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place six years after 67 people were killed in the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi and four years after the death of Garissa University in the north of the country.
Al Shabaab, headquartered in neighboring Somalia, vowed to retribution for Kenya as troops were sent to Somalia to fight Somalia and continue attacks in Somalia and Kenya.
Kenyan authorities said all five attackers were killed in the Dusit attack.
The prosecutor filed 45 witnesses during the trial.
On Thursday, the judge ordered a probation report to be prepared within 21 days and set June 19 as a verdict.
The third suspect, Mire Abdulahi, was charged with two men, earlier pleaded guilty and sentenced.
Foreign nationals, including the United States and the British, were killed in the 2019 attack.
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Following the AP’s African Report:
