Trauma, broken dreams as Africans endure wave of Islamist attacks

[YahooNews]

It was supposed to be a regular shopping trip to a Kenyan mall until Faith Wambua found herself playing dead for bullet-spraying militants, in an ordeal that capped a year of Islamist violence across the continent affecting countless ordinary Africans. "We were in the wrong place at the wrong time," Wambua said, still struggling to come to terms with Nairobi's Westgate siege, three months after the traumatic events that left at least 67 dead and scores more wounded. From a gas field in Algeria to a school dormitory in Nigeria, citizens across northern and central Africa were caught up in a wave of horrific attacks this year as the global jihadist movement opened up new fronts, threatening to shatter hopes of an African boom. Responsibility for the four-day siege at the upmarket Nairobi mall was claimed by Somalia's Shebab, an Al-Qaeda-linked group determined to demonstrate its capacity to fight back and strike outside the country's borders despite losing ground to African Union troops.

[Folami David]

All this sttacks will pass someday that's what everyone believes in. They came and they will surely go.