{"id":15963,"date":"2019-01-26T04:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mustaqbalradio.net\/?p=15963"},"modified":"2019-01-26T04:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T04:26:54","slug":"kenya-asks-un-to-finance-somalia-war-against-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/kenya-asks-un-to-finance-somalia-war-against-shabaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya asks UN to finance Somalia war against Shabaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kenya has urged the United Nations to finance the continental counter-terrorism mission in Somalia, arguing that this will stop the country from falling back to Al-Shabaab control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Chief Administrative Secretary Ababu Namwamba said there is need to plug funding gaps and boost counter-terrorism efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe promotion and maintenance of peace and security in the world is the primary mandate of the United Nations,\u201d Mr Namwamba told a gathering of diplomats from the African Union and the European Union in Brussels on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) continues to suffer insufficient and unpredictable funding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>TROOPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Djibouti and Burundi have jointly contributed troops to the 22,000-strong force, initially meant to last only six months in 2007, but which is still engaged in a dogged fight with the terrorist group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mr Namwamba, who represented Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma, spoke as Foreign Affairs ministers met in Brussels to buttress AU-EU relations just a week after the DusitD2 attack in Nairobi in which 21 people were killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Al-Shabaab took responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>LUKEWARM SUPPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Although he begged more partners to come on board, he criticised UN\u2019s lukewarm support for the Amisom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With 3,664 soldiers in Amisom, Kenya has previously called for more predictable funding for Amisom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But the UN Security Council, the global body\u2019s decision-making organ, declined AU\u2019s request to have Amisom benefit from UN funding through assessed contributions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>AMISOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One of the reasons advanced by the Council\u2019s members is that Amisom is a counter-terrorism force while the tradition at the UN is to fund peacekeeping missions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>If the UN agrees to fund the soldiers, there are fears a precedent will have been set to mix up combat and non-combat troops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The UN funds Amisom only by recompensing its equipment and other logistical expenditure. Yet Nairobi and peers have complained in the past that the money is usually delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Dailynation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has urged the United Nations to finance the continental counter-terrorism mission in Somalia, arguing that this will stop the country from falling back to Al-Shabaab control. Foreign Affairs Chief Administrative Secretary Ababu Namwamba said there is need to plug funding gaps and boost counter-terrorism efforts. \u201cThe promotion and maintenance of peace and security in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}