Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall reopened for business on Saturday, July 18, almost two years after Somali Islamists stormed in and massacred 67 shoppers and staff in 4 days of carnage.
The complex, Nairobi’s most upmarket shopping centre and a magnet for the east African nation’s growing middle class and expatriates, was badly damaged in the assault by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab rebels and has undergone months of renovation.
“Today, we are excited because we are back on our feet, and we can convince the world that terrorism is not bringing us down,” said Ben Mulla, a 34-year-old communications contractor and a siege survivor.
Read Agence France-Presse’s dispatch on Rappler.
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