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Africa Horn
Kenya Sends Troops to Somalia's Border
2007-01-04
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Kenya sent extra troops to its border with Somalia on Wednesday to keep Islamic militants from entering the country and said it would limit the number of Somali refugees seeking to cross the frontier because they were not in immediate danger.

The U.N.'s humanitarian agency said about 4,000 Somali refugees were reported to be near the Somali border town of Dhobley, unable to cross into Kenya. The agency gave no further details, but noted fears of newly laid land mines in southern Somalia following the latest fighting.

Kenyan Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju said Somali government troops were not threatening civilians so he didn't believe Somalis should be trying to cross the border into Kenya.
As good a reason as any.
Kenyan officials have detected a large number of people fraudulently applying for refugee status in the last year and have instituted a strenuous screening process, including taking fingerprints. With the added danger of combatants trying to slip into Kenya, Tuju said the Kenyan government would strictly enforce the tight screening process as long as the refugees waiting to cross were not in immediate danger. "There's no reason at all to allow an influx of people unless there are women and children and it's really, really obvious that they are in danger in their own country. At this particular time, we don't see that danger from the monitoring we are doing," Tuju told journalists.
Posted by:Steve White

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