Kenya's interior minister vowed on Friday that the country would not bow to terrorist threats, a day after the massacre of 147 students by al-Qaida-linked Shebab fighters from Somalia.

"Kenya's government will not be intimidated by the terrorists who have made killing innocent people a way to humiliate the government," Joseph Nkaissery told reporters, speaking in front of the university campus in the northeastern town of Garissa.

"The government is determined to fight back the terrorists, and I am confident we shall win this war against our enemies."