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Kenya raps U.S. over 'unfriendly' travel warning after attack
Source: Reuters
Kenya raps U.S. over 'unfriendly' travel warning after attack
NAIROBI | Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:50am EDT
(Reuters) - Kenya on Sunday asked the U.S. government to lift an advisory warning U.S. citizens over travel to the east African country after the September 21 Nairobi mall attack, calling it "unnecessary" and "unfriendly".
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku delivered the sharp diplomatic rebuke to Washington when he updated reporters on a government investigation eight days after the assault by Islamist militants on the upmarket Westgate mall in the Kenyan capital.
Although Kenyan police assisted by U.S., Israeli and European experts are still poring over the partially wrecked building, Ole Lenku said the death toll from the attack still stood at 67. Five attackers were also killed.
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Ole Lenku expressed strong objections to an updated travel advisory issued by the U.S. government to its citizens urging them to "evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing and recently heightened threats from terrorism" in the east African country.
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NAIROBI | Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:50am EDT
(Reuters) - Kenya on Sunday asked the U.S. government to lift an advisory warning U.S. citizens over travel to the east African country after the September 21 Nairobi mall attack, calling it "unnecessary" and "unfriendly".
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku delivered the sharp diplomatic rebuke to Washington when he updated reporters on a government investigation eight days after the assault by Islamist militants on the upmarket Westgate mall in the Kenyan capital.
Although Kenyan police assisted by U.S., Israeli and European experts are still poring over the partially wrecked building, Ole Lenku said the death toll from the attack still stood at 67. Five attackers were also killed.
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Ole Lenku expressed strong objections to an updated travel advisory issued by the U.S. government to its citizens urging them to "evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing and recently heightened threats from terrorism" in the east African country.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/29/us-kenya-attack-idUSBRE98S0A820130929
