Muslim man in prayer/XINHUA
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 1 — This coming Thursday, July 7, has been declared a public holiday to mark the end of the month of Ramadhan.
Muslim faithful will be celebrating Idd Ul Fitr on the day by breaking their month long fast and exercise of abstinence.
Sightings of the moon are used to determine the start and end date of Ramadhan during which Muslims are required to practice charity in addition to abstinence.
At the start of Ramadhan security forces cautioned that the terrorist group Al Shabaab would intensify their activity and both Kenya and Somalia have borne testament to this in the last month.
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With a decade of storytelling under her belt, Olive Burrows has been with Capital FM for the last four years and perhaps most notably interviewed US President Barack Obama. Committed to asking the hard questions and telling the story in the most engaging way possible, she has also interviewed Melinda Gates, a UK Minister and severally had the opportunity to sit across from President Uhuru Kenyatta and address the pressing issues of the day. Other notables she has had occasion to seek answers from are UN Secretary General António Guterres and John Kerry in his time as US Secretary of State.