l-Shabaab... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim
al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader...
hard boyz in Somalia.
Eritrean envoy to Kenya Beyene Russom was Friday summoned to a closed door meeting with top foreign ministry officials including Foreign minister Moses Wetangula, permanent secretary Thuita Mwangi and Secretary for Political and Diplomatic Affairs Patrick Wamoto.
Briefing the media after the meeting, Mr Wetangula said Kenya was not ruling out "reviewing diplomatic ties" with Eritrea -- a term that could loosely translate to severing ties - if the Horn of Africa state fails to give satisfactory explanations.
Kenya along with IGAD and Africa Union, the minister added, would also support enhanced sanctions against Eritrea which has been identified as a destabilising force in the region.
However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
Eritrea has chosen to send their foreign minister to Nairobi for a meeting with Mr Wetangula next week in a bid to calm down the rising tensions between the two countries.
"We are open-minded. In a relationship you can never say never to any issue," Mr Wetangula said at the press briefing in his office. Mr Russom left in a rush and did not attend the press briefing.
"Those (reviewing ties) are always extreme options that any country can take in circumstances that may justify that. As it is now we have not reached that level yet because the ambassador has delivered letters to me from the Eritrean foreign minister wishing to come to Kenya and talk to us."
"As a country if we get unsatisfactory explanations and answers then we move to level two," said Mr Wetangula, dropping a hint of the measures is willing to take to deal with Eritrea.