The palm-fringed beaches and lounging lions gracing Kenya’s tourist brochures could hardly present a greater contrast to scenes of gunmen careering around in pick-up trucks, fleeing families and blasted buildings familiar from neighbouring Somalia.
But Kenya has shouldered the burden of living next door to the world’s most failed state for years, struggling to cope with thousands of refugees, a proliferation of guns and terrorist attacks blamed on al-Qaeda suspects exploiting the chaos across the border.
