美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-04-15

 Hope you had a great weekend. If not, there's always next weekend. I'm Carl Azuz for CNN Student News.

 

First up this April 13th, Kenya is building a wall. It'll stretch 435 miles, roughly the span of the country's border with Somalia. Kenya's also reportedly telling the United Nations to relocate the world’s largest refugee camp. It's in Kenya, it contains 600,000 Somalis. Kenyan officials want it moved to Somalia, though the U.N. says it hasn't gotten an official request. 

 

All this has to do with security. Kenya says it has to change the way the U.S. did after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. The al-Shabaab terrorist group is based in Somalia. Kenya believes its operatives cross the border into Kenya, possibly filtering through the refugee camp, before targeting Christians¹ and killing² 147 people at a Kenyan university earlier this month.

 

Al-Shabaab also claimed responsibility for an attack in 2013 that killed 67 people in Kenya's Westgate shopping mall.

 

Here's a look at how porous³ the border is between Kenya and Somalia.

 

This is the border between Kenya and Somalia. Now, we can't show you this for security reasons, but either side of this border is a pretty substantial security set up and that has only grown up in size and scrutiny⁴ in the aftermath of the Westgate attack in Nairobi.

 

But this isn't the only route into Somalia. Hacked⁵ out the undergrowth, this is where traffic flows. The Panya routes, so-called rat routes, used by smugglers to cross back and forth⁶ undetected. Branching brazenly⁷ out from the government roads, they're certainly a smoother ride. In spite of the Kenyan government's efforts to beef up border security.

 

Now up through these smugglers' routes, we've managed to enter Somalia from Kenya without any checkpoints, without being asked for ID, without seeing any sort of government presence.

 

Night falls and it's rush hour on the Panya routes. People and goods ferry back and forth. Everyone is too afraid to stop for long here, even to help the stranded⁸ families we see along the way. Many are escaping the uncertainty⁹ back home in Somalia, but some are seeking to enter Kenya undetected for their own ends.

 

The Panya routes end in the Dadaab refugee camp. Authorities believe that during the build-up to Westgate, al-Shabaab operatives traveled from Somalia, through the Panya routes, and hid among the refugees in the camp. And it's from there, the Kenya authorities say, that they and other undocumented people made their way through government checkpoints and deeper into Kenya.

1 Christians   

n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
• His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。

2 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

3 porous   

adj.可渗透的，多孔的

参考例句：

• He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.他往土里掺沙子以提高渗水性能。
• The shell has to be slightly porous to enable oxygen to pass in.外壳不得不有些细小的孔以便能使氧气通过。

4 scrutiny   

n.详细检查，仔细观察

参考例句：

• His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好，但是经不起仔细检查。
• Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。

5 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

6 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

7 brazenly   

adv.厚颜无耻地；厚脸皮地肆无忌惮地

参考例句：

• How dare he distort the facts so brazenly! 他怎么敢如此肆无忌惮地歪曲事实！ 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• "I don't know," he answered, looking her brazenly over. “我也不知道，"他厚颜无耻地打量着她。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

8 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

9 uncertainty   

n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物

参考例句：

• Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
• After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。