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Two jailed for 30 years over 2019 Kenya hotel attack

A woman is reunited with family after being evacuated from the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi after the attack on the hotel in January 2019 [ Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP]

A Kenyan court has sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for aiding al-Shabab fighters who were behind a deadly attack in Nairobi that left 21 people dead in 2019.

On Thursday, Judge Diana Kavedza Mochache ruled that Hussein Mohammed Abdile and Mohamed Abdi Ali played a critical role by helping two of the attackers escape from a refugee camp using fake identity cards. The pair also provided financial assistance to the group.

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