The Nairobin police announced on 25 May that they had arrested two individuals who had links to ISIS and were planning to launch an attack. The two men were arrested in a suburb of the capital, Kenya. They had reportedly been planning an attack in retaliation for the recent arrest of a key ISIS member, Mohamed Abdi Ali. Nairobi has suffered years of attacks, typically conducted by al-Shabaab. ISIS poses a newer threat, though analysts have said that the crackdown on al-Shabaab may have allowed ISIS-sympathisers to operate unnoticed.
The Kenyan police announced on 25 May that they had arrested two individuals who had links to ISIS and were planning to launch an attack. The two men were arrested in a suburb of the capital, Nairobi. They had reportedly been planning an attack in retaliation for the recent arrest of a key ISIS member, Mohamed Abdi Ali. Kenya has suffered years of attacks, typically conducted by al-Shabaab. ISIS poses a newer threat, though analysts have said that the crackdown on al-Shabaab may have allowed ISIS-sympathisers to operate unnoticed.