But previous mooted border openings have failed, and fears of Al-Shabab attacks remain.Somalia' s efforts to open the country took another step forward when President William Ruto of neighboring Kenya ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Successes and failures in Kenya's eight-year-long military campaign against al-Shabaab are examined in a recently published history of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom).

Sugar is also imported through Kismayu and smuggled across the border into Kenya, where it is sold without paying the high tariffs that Kenya imposes to protect its sugar industry. "Kenya Defence ...

MOGADISHU, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Somalia said on Friday it had lost confidence in Kenyan troops serving in an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force, in the latest sign of worsening relations between the ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Kenyan forces not serving under the African Union [AU] mission in Somalia [AMISOM] have been accused of committing atrocities in Gedo region, Garowe Online reports. In a ...

President William Ruto said that safety would not be compromised by the re-opening Kenya's border with Somalia will re-open in April almost 15 years after it shut because of attacks by Islamist ...

When political leaders call for the application of military force, it is a useful to assess the intended political and military objectives. Quite often, those objectives are reactionary, ephemeral, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Airmen load a C-130J cargo plane in May 2025 at Manda Bay, Kenya. This past week the United States and Kenya broke ground on a ...

Kenya is part of an African Union force that has been battling the Islamist rebels. Al Shabaab has often staged attacks in Kenya and has said it will continue to launch strikes until Kenyan forces ...