. Al-Shabab has been accused of a spate of kidnappings and cross border attacks over the past few months [EPA] At least two people have been killed in an attack on a church in an eastern Kenyan town, amid a spate of violence and and cross-border attacks, police have said. Leo Nyongesa, the country’s police chief, said on [...]
History Repeats Itself With Somalia Invasion by Francis Njubi Nesbitt, November 02, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Kenya’s ill-advised incursion into Somalia on Oct. 16 after a rash of kidnappings in the tourist paradise of Lamu will most likely lead to a long and expensive quagmire. The escalation will further destabilize [...]
Kenya’s army chief said his troops will withdraw when Kenyans ‘feel that they are safe enough from al-Shabab‘ [AFP] A Kenyan air strike on a camp packed with displaced women and children has killed at least five and wounded 45, mostly women and children, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an aid agency, said. “I can confirm five dead and [...]
Somalis have lived for 20 years without a functioning government and the services it would supply [GALLO/GETTY] Al-Shabab and Somalia‘s ‘far enemy’ Al-Shabab has withdrawn from Mogadishu, but the country is shattered from years of civil war and US military actions. Abdullahi walks slowly past makeshift stalls in a crowded Mogadishu [...]
