Kenya's Garissa University reopens nine months after massacre

January 6, 2016

c. 2016 Religion News Service

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Faculty and administrators at Garissa University College returned to work Monday (January 4), nine months after a bloody massacre of mainly Christian students by Somalia’s al-Shabaab militants forced its closure.

Government officials and some analysts hailed the reopening of the campus in Kenya’s northeastern region as a defeat for terrorists.

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