(Photo: Courtesy)Mark (not his real name) spoke to his girlfriend at about 2.47am on Friday, January 15, 2015, before sliding back into his sleeping bag and falling dead asleep. Barely an hour later, a huge blast set off what would be the worst military loss for Kenya since independence. As blood gushed out of his colleague’s lifeless body, Mark stepped out of his sleeping bag, concurrently taking aim. “I was in my sleeping bag. Before the attack, I had made some calls to a friend and that is how I remember the time,” Mark recalls.

Source: Standard Digital January 14, 2017 20:52 UTC