A building in the southern Somalia port city of Kismayo bombed by Kenyan warships at the aegis of US imperialism. A multi-national Washington-directed military force, AMISOM, is occupying the country along with the CIA., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Despite Somalia’s plea, Kenyan forces will remain
From wire reports
Tuesday July 16, 2013 9:01 AM
NAIROBI, KENYA — Kenya’s government rejected accusations by Somalia that its forces breached their peacekeeping mandate and said its troops will remain there until the Horn of Africa country stabilizes.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud this month asked a group of Kenyan forces to leave the country’s south, accusing them of violating their mandate by supporting one of two factions seeking control of the Jubaland region. Somalia wants a neutral force to replace the Kenyan peacekeepers, Somali Information Minister Abdishakur Ali Mire said on July 1.
Kenyan troops entered Somalia in October 2011 to fight al-Qaida-linked Islamist group al-Shabab after a series of kidnappings of foreigners and the murder of a British tourist in Kenya, which the government blamed on the militant group.
“Kenya’s security along the border with Somalia is intractably linked to peace and stability in that country,” Zaddock Syong’oh, a policy adviser in Kenya’s Foreign Ministry, said in an interview last week in the capital, Nairobi. “Kenya’s military will not therefore leave Somalia until it is stable and secure.”
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