Toxic Political Populism: A Governor Acerbates Ultra Ethnic Terrorism in Mandera Inter-Border Prefecture.

The Governor of Mandera in Kenya’s North Eastern claims the Al-Qaeda branch in Somalia, Harakat al-Shabaab al Mujahideen has gained 50% territorial control of the inter-border County. The statement made it to Media Houses and the story immediately went viral and was uncritically published by the major media. Ali Ibrahim Roba’s claims are quite interesting...