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Somalis in Kenya fearful after Nairobi mall attack

Impoverished Somali refugee camps in northern Kenya could not be more different from upmarket malls in the capital Nairobi, but attacks by Somalia's Shebab insurgents have affected them both.Now, as Kenya reels from a four-day siege by the Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen in Westgate mall, Somalis in the country are terrified of retaliatory attacks."We are now more fearful than ever," said Mohamed Sheikh, a refugee living in the vast Dadaab complex, the world's largest refugee camp where row after row of tin shacks and shelters made of plastic and branches stretch almost as far as the eye can see.The camp, in northeastern Kenya and close to the border with war-torn Somalia, hosts over 405,000 Somalis who fled conflict.Many hate the extremist Shebab as much as Kenyans in Nairobi do, after the devastating bloodbath in the shopping centre which left at least 67 dead and dozens more missing."It was the Shebab that did everything bad to us in Somalia... and they are now following us to Kenya," Sheikh...

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