Teaching has resumed at the Kenyan
university where 148 students died in a gun attack last April but only a few
students have turned up for its reopening.
Security has been tightened at
Garissa University College nine months after the attack by militant Islamist
group al-Shabab.
But it appears that many potential
students have stayed away.
Last year's attack was the deadliest
so far by the Somali-based group in Kenya.
Staff reported to work last week to
get the campus in north-east Kenya ready.
It has been closed since the attack
and at the time some 650 students were offered places at a sister campus in
Eldoret, western Kenya, to continue their studies.
They were not expected to return to
Garissa but the authorities are hoping to attract a new cohort of students.
Only about a dozen students arrived
and attended a business management class.
The BBC's Angela Ngendo in Garissa
says that those who turned up were third-year students who worked in the local
area.
They told her they wanted to complete
the classes so they could graduate.
The university authorities say that
they expect more students to come for the beginning of the academic year in
September.
Al-Shabab says it is opposed to the
presence of Kenyan troops in neighbouring Somalia, BBC reports.
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