One
of my colleagues at the UN, a man from a Nordic country, decided to retire by
the Kenyan coast, not far from Mombasa. That decision was taken more than 10
years ago. The place was quiet and the weather much nicer than around the Baltic
Sea.
I
thought of him and his wife today. The news coming from that part of Africa
have not been good. And they have further deteriorated in the last couple of
days. People have been massacred by extremists, others have been kidnapped. And
above all, the national government seems too weak to be able to tackle the security
challenges.
The
dangerous situation shows once more that terrorism can spread fast if not
properly contained. The chaos that prevails in Somalia, just to the North of
Kenya, is a major menace to entire region. And of all the neighbouring
countries, Kenya is the most exposed to the expansion of the Somali anarchy.
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