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Multi-Faith Prayer Session Holds In Kenya Over Westgate Attack
 
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Tue, 1 Oct 2013   ||   Nigeria,
 

Various religious bodies in Kenya would organize a multi-faith prayer service for the victims of the Westgate mall attack in Kenya.

CEOAFRICA.com gathered that the prayer would witness the presence of various religious leaders from Christianity, Muslim and Hindu. I t would be graced by President Uhuru Kenyatta, his deputy William Ruto and opposition leader Rail Odinga.

Officials say 67 people died after militants from Somalia's al-Shabab stormed the mall on 21 September.

On Monday, Kenyan MPs called for camps for Somali refugees in the country to close in the wake of the siege.

Al-Shabab, a Somali Islamist group, said the attack was in retaliation for Kenya's military involvement in Somalia.

Kenya is host to the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab - home to about half a million people - near the Somali border, while it is believed that more than 30,000 Somali refugees live in Nairobi alone.

 

 

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