Ali Hanash Al Amri, a Saudi national arrested in Kiunga along the Kenya-Somali border on suspicion of links to Shabaab, was released for deportation to Saudi Arabia after protest by the Saudi ambassador. Al Amri, a.k.a. Ahmed Hanas, who was suspected of recruiting and funding Shabaab fighters, was arrested with two Kenyans, and authorities seized a boat allegedly used by Shabaab militants. A Somali diplomat, Siyad Mohamud Shire, was detained during ongoing security sweeps in Nairobi. Gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed a security guard at Nairobi’s biggest shopping mall and then escaped.
