Ethnic profiling of Somalis endangers this community

Kenyans reacted angrily to the xenophobic attacks on African immigrants in South Africa last month, terming it barbaric and primitive, and condemned the black South Africans who savagely killed and maimed their brothers. Equally, governments reacted with shock, and faulted the Government’s slow response to perennial attacks.

In Kenya, some political leaders are stoking fire by ethnicising terrorism, a situation that may ultimately lead to xenophobic attacks, and the government seemingly tolerates it. A month after the Garissa attack, the Government is yet to give identity of the other three terrorists, all presumed to be non-Somali Kenyans.