NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 06, 2015

Q: Al-Shabab terrorists invaded a campus in Grarissa, Kenya, last week and targeted Christian students in an attack that left 148 dead. Where is Kenya?

Circle the area on this map


Q: The terrorists told students the attack was in retaliation for Kenyan troops fighting al-Shabab in the nation on Kenya's eastern border. Which nation is that?

A. Ethiopia

B. Somalia

C. Tanzania

D. Uganda


B. Kenya lies on the equator with the Indian Ocean to the southeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the north and Somalia to the east. Kenya has endured a string of al-Shabab attacks since its troops joined a UN-backed African Union force that is battling the al-Qaida affiliate in Somalia.


Q: Sixty-seven people died in 2013 when al Shabab attacked the Westgate mall in Kenya's capital . . .

A. Addis Ababa

B. Kampala

C. Mogadishu

D. Nairobi


D. With a population of about 3.36 million, Nairobi also is the largest city in Kenya. It was the site of the nation's worst terrorist attack in 1998 when al-Qaida bombed the U.S. Embassy, killing 213 and wounding thousands.


Q: Al-Shabab grew out of the political chaos of Somalia. Somalia is in which part of the continent?

A. Horn of Africa

B. Cape of Good Hope

C. Gulf of Guinea

D. Kalahari 


A. The Horn of Africa  is the eastern most projection of the continent, jutting hundreds of miles into the Arabian Sea along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. The campus that was attacked in Grarissa is about 100 miles from the Somali border.


Q: While al-Shabab terrorists have attacked students in eastern Africa, Boko Haram jihadists have attacked schools in what west African nation?

A. Botswana

B. Mozambique

C. Nigeria

D. Zimbabwe


C. Boko Haram, which means "western education is forbidden,” carried out most of its attacks in northeast, north-central and central Nigeria. But it also has attacked civilians in neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.