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Kenya: World Somalia Ignore Threats


New York   The international community ignore the security threat from Somalia, said the Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula, Friday which estimates the U.S. wants to avoid a repeat of failed military intervention in 1992.Somalia's worsening conflict not of international attention, was defeated by Sudan, the war in Afghanistan, the Middle East peace effort and the war against drugs in Mexico, said Wetangula told Reuters in an interview in New York.A truly chaotic state is the biggest security threat in the Horn of Africa since the Islamist group Al Shabaab a rebellion to overthrow the Western-backed government Somlia, he said.

"We know ... how much money the U.S. spent to Afghanistan, we expect two billion dollars every day. Eastern African Region was requested 500 million dollars, not every year, not given" to stabilize Somalia, he said.When asked why he believed Somalia ignored, he says "you are the same as my estimate. For the United States, they may suffer embarrassment when they go there, I do not know. Maybe it is their policy."

U.S. says it promised to help the government of Somalia to fight Islamic insurgents and African Union peacekeepers to help with equipment, training and logistics.But the country did not send troops to Somalia since 1994 after leading a failed UN intervention which began when a military food aid operations in 1992. The army was withdrawn after the killing of U.S. soldiers sejumalah end of 1993.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the UN member states "provide immediate military assistance and financial support and other resources" to governments of Somalia and held high-level meeting of officials of Somalia 23 September at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session of the year.

Around 7200 Ugandan and Burundian peace troops deployed in Mogadishu and was assigned to guard the airport and sea port and protect President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed from guerrilla attacks.Wetangala says Somalia's problems will not destabilize neighboring Kenya that could be a target of Al-Shabaab attacks, which claimed responsibility for the deaths of 79 people in one attack in the capital city of Uganda, July 11.

Somalia hit by anarchy since warlords overthrew dictator Siad Barre in 1991 Mohamaed. The active pirates in waters off-shore waters.Al-Shabaab make a three-year rebellion against the weak transitional government and the group that ruled Mogadishu and most of the vast regions of southern Somalia and central.

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