Sheikh Idris
A Muslim cleric was at the forefront in the fight against the radicalisation of youths in Kenya has been shot dead in Mombasa.
Sheikh Mohammed Idris, Chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK), was killed as he left a local mosque near his home by a group of gunmen.
Reports say he had previously been threatened by radical Muslim youths and had said he feared for his life.
He is the fourth prominent Muslim cleric to be shot dead in the city since 2012.
The others were accused of links to the al-Qaeda linked Somali Islamist group al-Shabab and their supporters accused the government of being behind their killings - charges the authorities denied.
Idris had apparently urged the police to deal with militant elements at his mosque, leading some to brand him a traitor.
Mombasa's police chief Robert Kitur told Agence France Presse (AFP) that "There was a power struggle at Sakina mosque - where he was supposed to be installed as a sheikh - between his supporters and another radical group opposed to him."
According to Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper, those opposed to him wanted to change the mosque's name from Sakina Jamia to Masjid Mujahedeen, meaning "mosque of Islamist fighters".
In April, Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, known as Makaburi, who had been listed by the UN as a recruiter for al-Shabab, was shot dead in Mombasa.
Before he died, he had said he supported the group's attack last September on the Westgate shopping centre in the capital, Nairobi, when 67 people died.
His supporters blamed Kenya's Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) for his killing.