TZ girl arrested en route to join Shabaab militants

From left: Ms Ummukhayr Sadri Abdullah, Ms Maryam Said Aboud and Ms Khadija Abubakar Abdulkadir when they appeared in a Mombasa court yesterday. They were not charged, but the court ordered that they be detained for 20 days to allow police to complete investigations into claims they were arrested while on their way to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab. PHOTO | LABAN WALLOGA

What you need to know:

  • The Zanzibar government said it could not comment as it was yet to be officially notified of Ms Abdullah’s arrest
  • Kenyan authorities claim 19-year-old Ummul-Khayr Sadir Abdullah, a university student from Zanzibar,was leading three other young women on a trip to join the radical group in war-torn Somalia

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