nairobi. >> in nigeria the government has expelled boko haram from nairobi nairobi.re are images that some may find disturbing. >> harvesting what remains on the family farm. they left it unattended for two months when boko haram fighters have overrun the town. now they've lost a substantial amount of produce. >> we were supposed to harvest two months back. but because of the dissidents and because of the dissidents, i lost my father. >> there is the sight and smell of death. >> there is one dead body there. and therefore we can't afford to invest it. likewise there are many around us. you can find dead bodies around our farmland. >>> on the way to town the streets are littered with evidence of the carnage. weeks after boko haram fight percent chaseders were chased out, the area is quiet. >> reporter: many are staying away. many businesses remain shut, dashing any hope for quick return to normalcy. >> at the markets people are clearing debris. a large section of the market was set on fire. hundreds of thousands of dollars have been lost, and the traders here face an

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nairobi. >> reporter: jamal says he plans to leave nairobi soon and take his son and daughter to one of theugee camps. he feels the new security laws make him an easy target for police because he is a refugee from somali living in kenya. >> translator: we are afraid of these new laws. we can easily be arrested if police suspect you are terrorists. if i'm arrested who will look after my children? >> reporter: the high court has suspended parts of the anti-terrorism law. the judge said objectives raised over the law being unconstitutional should be investigated. the kenyan government say that officials need more powers to fight what they kalas lammist fighters. the group al-shabab has claimed responsibility for most attacks. police raids here are nothing new. over the years a number of people have been arrested for different reasons, especially when a terror incident occurs. some families fear the new security laws will make things worse for them. it require journalist obtain police permission before investigating and publishing reports. they also give security and intelligence agencies the r

nairobi. >> reporter: jamal abdul aziz plans to leave nairobi soon and take his children to the refugee borders in somalia. he feels the country's new security laws make him an easy farth for police because he's a refugee fwr somalia living in kenya. >> translator: we are afraid of the new laws. we can easily be arrested if police suspect you're a terrorist. we're always afraid. if i'm arrested who will look after my children? >> reporter: the high courts suspended parts of the law. there's objections raised by the opposition over the laws being unconstitutional. the kenyan government is not targeting a group and official need more power to fight what they call islamic fighters. the group al shabaab has claimed responsibility. some may operate in a neighborhood in the capital of nairobi where somalis live. this is nothing new. over the years the number of people have been arrested for different reasons, especially when a terror incident occurs. some families feel the new security laws make it worse for them. the security laws in the current form require journalists to obtain police permission before investigating or publishing storying on domestic attacks and security issues. they also give security and intelligence agencies the right to detain suspects for up to one year. some feel this gives security forces too much power and violates people's constitutional rights in the name of fighting terror. >> the way the laws are present right now is an attempt to give government an authority or hand to do something when they feel someone has infringed. we're saying there's no reason not terrorism or anything to deny people their fundamental rights. indeed, if there's a problem, yes, people should be arraigned, but this should be done within the confines of the constitution.

nairobi. it was a very up market. it's a place where prominent people come. >> at the back of the mall was a giant supermarket on two floors. nakumatt's westgate was the premiere supermarket in nairobi. it had an escalator. it was a huge thing for kenya to have an escalator inside a supermarket. and they sold everything you might need, and that was always its tag line, all under one roof. >> we would be there two or three times during the week. it's more than just a mall to buy, you know, extra stuff. it was really part of our lives. >> that saturday was really a normal saturday, like any other saturday. i went with my kids, my daughter, emily, who's 6 years old, and my son, eliot, who's 4. i was quite excited, because i was doing a big shop and i tried to do all my shopping at the local supermarket, but i was finding stuff i don't normally find. i'm french and i was finding a drink you get in france and getting really excited about it. >> we were planning on getting as many groceries as we could. and we needed to do it relatively quickly, because i had a little baby who was 8 months old and he was hitting close to nap time. we took our time, but we were thinking, okay, baby's going

nairobi. >> reporter: this is not the source of classroom the government wants for children but this is all that is available to them. they attend care takers education center in one of the slums in nairobi and known as a complimentary school and survives mainly on donations. the founder of the school says they provide more support to the children than a government school could. >> translator: if i compare us to the government's cause we address more needs because a child could come to their school without sandals and uniforms and some students need medicine during the day and we give it to them, this would not happen in the public schools. >> reporter: many are orphans or have parents sick with hiv, aids. the facilities are simple but the school is serving a need. if these children were not here they would be on the streets, easy prey for criminal gangs and there are 2000 schools like this in kenya but analysts say the figure is probably much higher and he has been researching complimentary schools for the past six years. what are some of the challenges? >> one, lack of structure. these schools are managed by owners who see only the profits and not able to talk about how to manage the schools and we have few teachers and the teachers are not well trained and are poor and therefore high teacher turn over in the school and dissolution and the government is providing solutions answer the police are piecemeal and addressing specific areas and we need schools in islam and high-capacity schools with the large population we have in the slums. >> reporter: the government says it's committed to improving access to school and introduced free primary education and also supports some of the alternative schools financially and with books and other classroom materials. it's a complex issue with no easy answers and analysts say they need to consider what is best for children in the long-term, al jazeera, nairobi post traumatic stress disorder or ptsd is major for soldiers who have been through combat and in afghanistan with come flint for 40 years there is a cultural sigma attached to the condition and jennifer glasse explains. >> reporter: in the specialist military ptsd unit this soldier wants to go back to the battlefield. you're in a hospital not a prison the doctor tells him. tell the commander to come get me out of here or i will kill myself he threatens. the doctor tells a nurse to give him an injection and assures the patient it will make him feel better and also tells him suicide is forbidden in islam. medicine is the standard treatment here not psychiatry. >> translator: there are lots of ptds cases in the west because there is a surge in statistics but have no way to measure it here and this cases are present here as well. >> reporter: only a small fraction end up here. there is a cultural stigma to admitting any kind of mental problem especially in the military, this 47 bed ward w

nairobi. it was a very up market. it's a place where prominent people come. >> at the back of the mall was a giant supermarket on two floors. >> it was the premiere supermarket in nairobi. it had an escalator. it was a huge thing for kenya to have an escalator inside a supermarket. and they sold everything you might need, and that was always its tag line, all under one roof. >> we would be there two or three times during the week. it's more than just a mall to buy, you know, extra stuff. it was really part of our lives. >> that saturday was really a normal saturday, like any other saturday. i went with my kids, my daughter, emily, who's 6 years old, and my son, eliot, who's 4. i was quite excited, because i was doing a big shop and i tried to do all my shopping at the local supermarket, but i was finding stuff i don't normally find. i'm french and i was finding a drink you get in france and getting really excited about it. >> we were planning on getting as many groceries as we could. and we needed to do it relatively quickly, because i had a little baby who was 8 months old and he was hitting close to nap time. we took our time, but we were thinking, okay, baby's going