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Report: Kenyan armed forces trading with Al Shabaab in Somalia
http://mobile.nation.co.ke/blogs/Report-on-KDF-atrocities-in-Somalia/-/1949942/2956814/-/format/xhtml/-/wcbey2z/-/index.htmlA report titled “Black and White” (“black” for charcoal and “white” for sugar) by the NGO, Journalists for Justice, that was released last week reaffirms allegations that have been made before, including by the United Nations Monitoring Group, that the Kenya Defence Forces are trading with Al Shabaab, the very enemy they are supposed to be fighting.
The report notes that since Kenya invaded Somalia in October 2011, there has been little public accounting for its activities, whether to the National Assembly or the public generally.
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The report cites a diplomat saying that illicit trade in sugar and charcoal is “shocking” and “inimical to national security”.
The report cites sources inside KDF, the Kenyan Parliament and foreign embassies all of which described a situation in which a high ranking military official is at the head of a smuggling network which includes commanders of KDF within Amisom and “key figures in the Ministries of Defence, Immigration and State House, and that this network enjoys the protection and tacit co-operation of leaders at the highest echelons of the Executive and the National Assembly.”
The report notes that since Kenya invaded Somalia in October 2011, there has been little public accounting for its activities, whether to the National Assembly or the public generally.
...
The report cites a diplomat saying that illicit trade in sugar and charcoal is “shocking” and “inimical to national security”.
The report cites sources inside KDF, the Kenyan Parliament and foreign embassies all of which described a situation in which a high ranking military official is at the head of a smuggling network which includes commanders of KDF within Amisom and “key figures in the Ministries of Defence, Immigration and State House, and that this network enjoys the protection and tacit co-operation of leaders at the highest echelons of the Executive and the National Assembly.”
