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Kenya to reopen its border with Somalia soon

By Khadarow
Last updated: February 5, 2023
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Nairobi (SONNA) — Plans for the reopening of the Kenya-Somalia border in Mandera are nearing conclusion, with the renovation of the Customs Border Control Point set to begin soon.

This follows a series of high-level consultations between the two countries with the intent to advance new spheres of shared interests, particularly cross-border trade and regional security.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has intimated that the move is one of the strategic interventions that will be deployed to curb illicit cross-border trade, including smuggling of goods, illegal firearms, counterfeits, and drugs.

“Our border with Somalia has been closed for about ten years,” the CS said of Mandera Border Control Point, which ceased activity in 2012.

“The governments of Kenya and Somalia have agreed to designate a border point to facilitate legal movement of people and goods for the benefit of the people of Mandera and Bula Hawa,” he added.

The CS, who was addressing elected leaders and community elders during a security tour in Mandera and Wajir, directed the county security team and the relevant government agencies to conduct a joint needs assessment for the makeover of the offices and draw up a comprehensive plan detailing the financial and logistical requirements for the undertaking.

While vouching for the potential utility of the border post, Kindiki tasked the team to come up with the report in the next one week to set off the rehabilitation works, which will be executed based on a time-bound approach.

The Kenya Revenue Authority’s Customs and Border Control and the Department of

Immigration will be among the agencies that will be involved in the exercise.

With the fast-evolving threats to the global security landscape, Kenya has set about reorienting

Its counter-terrorism policy to incorporate preventive and socio-economic interventions into the existing security operations.

Being among the frontier counties, Mandera and Wajir have been vulnerable to terror attacks and radicalization to violent extremism, a trend CS Kindiki said the government intends to countervail through community-led security operations.

To this end, he tasked the county security team with mobilization of community elders to identify and flush out armed militants believed to have sneaked across the border.

This strategy, according to the CS, was recently deployed by Somalia to great success.

“Some criminals and terrorists banished from Somalia have been spotted around this county. If our neighbours have managed to oust those characters from their country, we also have the where withal to emulate them,” he said.

Source: AllAfrica

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