Kenya set to withdraw its troops from Somalia due to lack of international donor funding

[Carafaat]

Kenya set to withdraw Somalia battalion

 

Kenya will reduce its troop presence in Somalia by about 20 per cent in the coming weeks, according to a report to the United Nations (UN) Security Council.

 

A battalion of 850 Sierra Leone troops is scheduled to be added to the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) in February and March, with Kenya reducing its deployment by one battalion, the report says.

 

Kenya had a total of 4,652 soldiers assigned to Amisom as of last November, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon tells the Security Council in a report expected to be discussed next week.

 

The scheduled reduction to around 3,800 Kenyan soldiers comes amid complaints that the UN has paid only a small fraction of the $132 million it had agreed to provide Kenya by this July as reimbursement for contributions to Amisom.

 

The UN has paid less than $1 million of that sum. Kenyan UN Ambassador Macharia Kamau told the Security Council last month that delay in paying the pledged amount is "unacceptable and unsustainable."

 

Kenyan forces have helped make "significant progress" in securing the port of Kismayu in southern Somalia, the UN secretary general's report says.

 

Amisom detachments in Lower and Middle Juba, which consist mainly of Kenyan troops, "have deprived al-Shabaab of revenue from seaport taxation, custom duties and smuggling of contraband, notably the import and export of charcoal and sugar," the report notes.

 

At the same time, however, "al-Shabaab has intensified its outreach in the region, attempting to establish links with local extremist groups," the report warns.

 

"It continues to recruit fighters in neighbouring countries, train them and facilitate the return of those who want to wage war against their homeland, as demonstrated by the recent spate of attacks in Kenya."

[Carafaat]

Kenya really thought they would get a check of 132 million dollar for this mashruuc. Hope that money is spend on Somalias defence forces rather the Kikuyus and their cosh cow mashruucs.

[Carafaat]

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The real AMISOM troops are on their way. Kenyans should leave.

[oba hiloowlow]

hmm

[Yunis]

Carafaat going overboard, Secessionist who used to dance on the mayhem in the south, exploit it, enjoy it, relished the widening the divide of the 'Koofurian's as they like to call it are now having nosebleeds, these folks need to climb-down from their envious ivory tower and realize the war which they wish will not materialize, those days have passed

[xiinfaniin]

^^Indeed Yonis,

 

The sharp separatists, to state the obvious, have abandoned the Kismayo threads as they understood the game is effectively over for them. We are left with Carafaat and Xaaji Xunuf relying on the very same government they refuse its legitimacy to prevent the birth of Jubbaland State.

[Carafaat]

Somaliland nor Somalilanders have nothing to do with Kismayo, they are not even interested unlike the pirates. Carafaat on the other hand is a product of Xamar and is interested in all of Somalia, including Kismayo.

[Carafaat]

http://www.hiiraan.com/news/2013/Apr/wararka_maanta4-21492.htm

 

Kenya withdrawing more troops. Sad news for our Kenyan agents here.