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Alert on border as Somali terror cell
clashes with Ethiopia troops
23 February, 2011 | By FRED MUKINDA
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Kenya’s security was on Wednesday put on alert after heavy
fighting broke out near the border with Somalia and Ethiopia.
It pitted groups allied to the al Qaeda terror network in Somalia
against Ethiopian combatants but there were fears the fighting could
spill over into Kenya.
Residents of Mandera, near the border reported hearing the sound
of gunfire but no casualties were reported.
Police said the terrorist faction had pitched camp at Bulahawa, on
the Kenya– Somalia border.
Police commissioner Mathew Iteere said the fighting involved groups
in neighbouring Somalia and Ethiopia.
“It does not involve us. Only the sound of gunfire can be heard from
our side. It has not spilled to Kenya and there is no influx of people
running away from the fighting,” he said.
Mr Iteere said security has been beefed up at the border to handle
any security threat. In the past, warring terrorist groups have
extended their fighting to Kenyan soil.
A joint security force of Kenya Army Rangers and Special Forces,
as well as the General Service Unit and Administration Police, is
patrolling the vast border.
Killed or injured
In past incursions by foreign militants, security officers have either
been killed or injured. The assailants also commandeered Kenyan
vehicles to Somalia and held their victims for ransom.
The Somalia-Kenya border has since been closed and the United
Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, last year asked Kenya not to
stop refugees running away from fighting.
According to UNHCR, Kenyan authorities at Border Point One
camp at Mandera ordered more than 8,000 Somali refugees to
cross back into Somalia last year.
That, according to the agency, has put the lives of the refugees, who
are mainly women, children, and the elderly, at risk, because some
had crossed into the no-man’s land between Kenya and Somalia.
E-mail: fmukinda@ke.nationmedia.com
Courtesy
clashes with Ethiopia troops
23 February, 2011 | By FRED MUKINDA
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kenya’s security was on Wednesday put on alert after heavy
fighting broke out near the border with Somalia and Ethiopia.
It pitted groups allied to the al Qaeda terror network in Somalia
against Ethiopian combatants but there were fears the fighting could
spill over into Kenya.
Residents of Mandera, near the border reported hearing the sound
of gunfire but no casualties were reported.
Police said the terrorist faction had pitched camp at Bulahawa, on
the Kenya– Somalia border.
Police commissioner Mathew Iteere said the fighting involved groups
in neighbouring Somalia and Ethiopia.
“It does not involve us. Only the sound of gunfire can be heard from
our side. It has not spilled to Kenya and there is no influx of people
running away from the fighting,” he said.
Mr Iteere said security has been beefed up at the border to handle
any security threat. In the past, warring terrorist groups have
extended their fighting to Kenyan soil.
A joint security force of Kenya Army Rangers and Special Forces,
as well as the General Service Unit and Administration Police, is
patrolling the vast border.
Killed or injured
In past incursions by foreign militants, security officers have either
been killed or injured. The assailants also commandeered Kenyan
vehicles to Somalia and held their victims for ransom.
The Somalia-Kenya border has since been closed and the United
Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, last year asked Kenya not to
stop refugees running away from fighting.
According to UNHCR, Kenyan authorities at Border Point One
camp at Mandera ordered more than 8,000 Somali refugees to
cross back into Somalia last year.
That, according to the agency, has put the lives of the refugees, who
are mainly women, children, and the elderly, at risk, because some
had crossed into the no-man’s land between Kenya and Somalia.
E-mail: fmukinda@ke.nationmedia.com
Courtesy
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