NAIROBI—The Interior ministry has imposed Mandera County with dusk-to-dawn curfew following two nightly attacks that left 18 people dead.
The curfew takes effect Thursday evening at 6:30 pm until 6:30 am from the 27 this month to 17th December, 2016.
In a special gazette notice released on Wednesday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaisserry called on the residents to comply to the new order.
“This order applies to all that area comprised in Mandera Town, Omar Jill’o, Arabin, Fino, Lafey, Kutulo, Elwak and the environs of the said locations extended to 20 kilometers from Kenya/Somalia border.
“Every person who resides within the sub county shall…remain indoors in the premises at which they reside or at such other premises as may be authorised,” the gazette notice read in part.
The curfew order comes barely two days after 12 people; a woman and eleven men were killed at a low-cost guest house—Bishaaro Lodge in Mandera town.
Earlier in the month, six other people were killed in similar fashion when Al Shabab militants stormed a building that housed construction workers at Bula Works in Mandera town.
Both attack were staged in the dead of the night when the victims were asleep.
