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Wednesday 17 Dec 2014 - 12:43 Makkah mean time-25-2-1436  Nairobi (IINA) – Kenyan authorities have deregistered over 500 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), some of which were accused of financing terrorism in the country, officials said.
The bank accounts of 15 out of 537 deregistered NGOs have been frozen, permits issued to them to recruit foreign workers have been revoked, and information over links to terrorism has been forwarded to security agencies, Deputy Director of Kenya’s NGO Coordination Board Henry Ochido said Tuesday.
“Some NGOs have been and continue to be used for criminal activities, including as conduits of terrorism financing in Kenya and the Horn of Africa,” the board said in a statement.
Hundreds of other NGOs are at the risk of being deregistered within the next three weeks, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Concern Worldwide because they failed to file audit reports, the statement added.
Donors who contribute money to NGOs will now be required to inform the government of the amount of money they give to NGOs and activities they are funding.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group has increasingly been targeting Kenya for attack, saying it is in response to the presence of thousands of Kenyan troops in Somalia as part of the African Union force.
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