NAIROBI: Somalia’s Shebab Islamists threatened on Wednesday to step up militant attacks against Kenya, after Nairobi refused to pull its troops out of Somalia.

The al-Qaeda linked Shebab claimed responsibility for last week’s attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, in which at least 67 people died, with 39 more listed as missing by the Red Cross.

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