{"id":89692,"date":"2023-05-15T20:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=89692"},"modified":"2023-05-15T21:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T18:59:24","slug":"89692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2023\/05\/89692\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kenyan government reopens three border areas with Somalia."},"content":{"rendered":"

Three border crossings between Kenya and Somalia, which have been closed for nearly 12 years, are set to be reopened this month, according to the Kenyan government.<\/p>\n

The three locations – Bulahawa in Mandera County, Liboi in Garissa County, and Kiunga-Daresalam in Lamu County – were closed in 2011 during raids and attacks by Al -Shabaab.<\/p>\n

Kenya’s Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki is scheduled to hold a meeting with his Somali counterpart, Mohamed Sheikh Doodishe, on Monday to discuss the plan to reopen the three border crossings.<\/p>\n

The meeting will also be attended by the Minister of Defense of Kenya, Aden Barre Duale, and the envoy for Foreign Affairs of Kenya, Alfred Mutua, and his Somali counterpart.<\/p>\n

This issue came after the inauguration of the border project between Somalia and Ethiopia in Mandera last week.<\/p>\n

During the launch, the authorities promised to cooperate and deal with security issues in the region.<\/p>\n

Officials from both countries will discuss how to address common security threats, border management, economic infrastructure, and trade facilitation.<\/p>\n

Kindiki said the meeting will also focus on the necessary measures to ensure security before the borders are reopened.<\/p>\n

In the past five years, there have been a series of attacks by Al-Shabaab fighters in North East Kenya.<\/p>\n

In the deadliest attack, the Islamist extremist group killed nearly 150 people at Garissa University in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Three border crossings between Kenya and Somalia, which have been closed for nearly 12 years, are set to be reopened this month, according to the Kenyan government. The three locations – Bulahawa in Mandera County, Liboi in Garissa County, and Kiunga-Daresalam in Lamu County – were closed in 2011 during raids and attacks by Al […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-wararka-caalamka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89730,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692\/revisions\/89730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}