Kenya’s push north into Somalia will open another front that Somali militants must contend with. Somalis also abducted a British woman from a Kenyan coastal resort in September.
1, Somali gunmen took a wheelchair-bound Frenchwoman from her home near the resort town of Lamu. The population of Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, has swelled by tens of thousands in recent months because of Somalia’s famine. The public declaration to attack al-Shabab came two days after armed militants kidnapped two Spanish aid workers with the group Doctors Without Borders from the Dadaab refugee camp, a sprawling expanse of temporary homes where almost 500,000 Somalis live. “For the first time our country is threatened with the most serious level of terrorism,” he said. Minister of Internal Security George Saitoti told a news conference on Saturday that Kenyan forces would pursue al-Shabab into Somalia. Kenyan troops have frequently crossed the border into Somalia, but Sunday’s push appears to be a bigger and more concerted effort. Mutua and Kenya’s military spokesmen did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The diplomat’s employer does not allow him to be identified. concrete, corporeal, earthly, en masse, fleshly, gross, incarnate. The Liboi resident asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals. oar boating carnival regatta boat like Noah's ark boat moved with foot power. The helicopter crashed in Liboi, a town about 10 miles (20 kilometers) from the Kenya-Somalia border. They are ready at the borders, so sending troops is not needed,” Osman said. “Our forces are ready to combat al-Shabab and they are doing so effectively. No civilian casualties were reported but the status of the pilots on board was not immediately known.Ī Somali government spokesman, Abdirahman Omar Osman, said his government welcomes logistical support from “our Kenyan brothers,” but said Somalia did not need Kenyan troops. This page shows answers to the clue Stampede, followed by 6 definitions like Act, usually en masse, Cause to run in panic and A headlong rush of people on a common impulse. Late Sunday evening, a military helicopter crashed and caught fire inside Kenya from an apparent mechanical malfunction, a diplomat and a resident said. No large-scale fighting has yet broken out, the residents said. Ali Abdullahi, a resident in Dhobley, said the army vehicles were towing what he described as “big guns.” Witnesses in the Somali town of Dhobley on Monday said an estimated 40 Kenyan military vehicles entered the town on Sunday. Four Europeans have been abducted and one killed. The invasion came one day after Kenyan defense officials said the country has the right to defend itself against al-Shabab militants after a string of kidnappings inside Kenya. Kenyan tanks, artillery and hundreds of fighters are moving through militant territory in Somalia, residents said Monday.įighter jets and helicopters have been flying overhead since Kenyan forces moved en masse into Somalia on Sunday.
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