Kenya cautioned over new somali crisis

[Dabrow]

By Geoffrey Mosoku

 

Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya has been asked to rethink its support for the self-declared state of Jubaland in southern Somalia as the region and the Federal governments squabble.

 

The situation has further been compounded with warlords drawn from various declaring themselves president.

 

A group of Kenyan businessmen warned that Kenya’s security is likely to be once again threatened if the region returns to the hands of Al Shabaab, with fighting reported in parts of the south after six men declared themselves president.

 

The group told the government to remain neutral in mediating a solution of the emerging conflict between Jubaland and the Federal Government; which is reluctant to recognize an independent Juba state.

 

The new conflict between the Somali Federal Government and Jubaland is likely to crop up today in Addis Ababa during the ongoing AU heads of State meeting. Somali president Sheikh Hassan is set to meet President Uhuru Kenyatta to discuss the matter.

 

The business community said Jubaland is likely to experience a new wave of insecurity as the war-lords seek to control the port of Kismayu with its effects likely to spill over to Kenya.

 

“Currently there is high insecurity in parts of North eastern and Garissa in specific. All this is caused by the happenings in South Somali,” Abdi Hajji who is a Garissa based businessman said.

 

Hajji told reporters in Nairobi that the wave of insecurity in Garissa and other regions such as Wajir is a cause of conflict in the South.

 

Ahmed Mohamed Islam alias Sheikh Madobe of the ******, who was Kenya’s key ally during the incursion against Al Shabab last year was elected President at Kismayu university.

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/m/story.php?articleID=2000084275&story_title=kenya-cautioned-over-new-somalia-crisis

[Haatu]

Dabrow;954675 wrote:

By Geoffrey Mosoku

“Currently there is high insecurity in parts of North eastern and Garissa in specific. All this is caused by the happenings in South Somali,” Abdi Hajji who is a Garissa based businessman said.

 

Hajji told reporters in Nairobi that the wave of insecurity in Garissa and other regions such as Wajir is a cause of conflict in the South.

Do you know when the war broke out, the reer Somalia used to say "waxaanu nahey xabadi keentay, idinkana waxaad tihiin xabadi sugtay". Keep your bloody squabbles to your self!

[Carafaat]

Let's see if the Kikuyu follow-up the recommendations of IGAD.