Kenya appoints new intelligence chief amid rising Shabaab threat


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Sep 2014

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya on Thursday swore in a new intelligence chief to tackle the rising threat from Somali Islamist militants bent on retaliation after U.S. missiles last week killed their leader Ahmed Godane.

Major-General Philip Kameru's appointment as new director general of Kenya's National Intelligence Service comes nearly a year after al Shabaab gunmen killed 67 people in an attack on Nairobi shopping mall.

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