Kenyan court sentences men for aiding al-Shabab militants in 2019 hotel attack

Mohammed Abdi Ali, right, was appearing at court in Nairobi (Andrew Kasuku/AP)

A court in Kenya sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for facilitating the 2019 attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex that left 21 people dead.

The court heard that Hussein Mohamed Abdille Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali, both Kenyans, sent money and helped acquire fake identification documents for the militants, who died during the attack on the DusitD2 complex.