Kenyan court finds two men guilty of facilitating 2019 hotel terrorist attack

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Kenyan court finds two men guilty of facilitating 2019 hotel terrorist attack  Two men have been found guilty of sending money and faking IDs for al-Shabaab terrorists, who attacked a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi in 2019, leaving 21 people dead. The men are expected to be sentenced next month.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/05/23/kenyan-court-finds-two-men-guilty-of-facilitating-2019-hotel-terrorist-attack  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:01found guilty for facilitating a deadly terrorist attack.

00:06A court in Nairobi has pronounced its verdict for two Kenyan men on Thursday,

00:11who it said had aided the assailants in one of the country's worst terrorist attacks in recent years.

00:17Hussein Mohamed Abdel Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali sent money and helped acquire fake identification documents

00:23for the militants from the Somalian Al-Shabaab terrorist group,

00:26which attacked the Ducid D2 hotel complex in Nairobi in 2019.

00:3221 people died and 28 others were wounded during the assault.

00:39Al-Shabaab has repeatedly targeted Kenya for the deployment of its armed forces in counterterrorism operations in Somalia.

00:46A third suspect in the hotel attack, who had been charged alongside the two Kenyan nationals,

00:51had earlier pleaded guilty and was sentenced.

00:53The two men, meanwhile, are expected to be sentenced next month.

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