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| Could Kenya Learn From Ethiopia’s Anti-Terror Strategy? |
| 2014-12-10 |
| Kenya has a security problem. Fighters from the militant group al-Shabab, driven from their strongholds across Somalia, have claimed responsibility for gruesome attacks targeting non-Muslims in northeastern Kenya: hijacking a bus full of passengers in one recent incident and attacking quarry workers as they slept in their tents in another. Both attacks took place in Kenya’s Mandera County, near the border with Somalia. "Most of the al-Shabab forces seem to be largely in control of the area bordering Mandera – this Gedo region – so we have a situation where we have large numbers of people there and we don't have a border that is really properly secured," said Billow Kerrow, a senator from the county. Kerrow has noticed that Kenya's neighbor to the north, Ethiopia, has had much more success preventing terrorism on its own soil – despite having a much longer border with Somalia and a longer history of military involvement in the country. And he thinks Kenya should look to Ethiopia as a model. |
| Posted by:badanov |