"Now it’s much harder because al Shabaab has shown its adaptability by recruiting from outside the traditional areas." FOOTBALL, DRUGS AND MOTORBIKESGichunge, the son of a Kenyan military officer, was radicalised while working at a hotel Internet cafe in Isiolo town, his sister told Reuters. But some said al Shabaab recruiters had been targeting young, unemployed men from outside the ethnic Somali community there for years. Police caught Boru trying to join al Shabaab near the Somali border in 2017, his father said. Martin Kimani, Kenya's chief counter-terrorism official, said statistics on al Shabaab recruitment are classified.

Source: The Star May 17, 2019 07:52 UTC