Kenya: British tourist was kidnapped and her husband killed at an upscale resort in Lamu

Only days after British tourist Judith Tebbutt was kidnapped and her husband killed at an upscale resort in Lamu in September, Kenyan tanks rolled into Somalia seeking to create a buffer zone against the bandits who had been operating with impunity on the nation’s doorstep. That was a decisive enough response to the repeated provocations of the Shabaab-allied militants for whom the Ras Kamboni region had long served as a safe haven. Read article