- Target:
- Ofice of the president
- Region:
- Kenya
October 16th 2011, Kenya Defence Forces moved into Southern Somalia to pursue insurgents group Al Shabaab after a series of kidnappings of tourists along the border. One month, later Kenyan government agreed to re-hat its forces under the African Union Mission in Somalia.
The troops from Kenya were later formally integrated into AMISOM on February 22, 2012 after the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2036.
AMSOM’s Sector 2, which has its headquarters in the port city of Kismayo, is comprised of Lower and Middle Juba. Currently there are 3664 troops from Kenya after they pulled out a battalion when 850 Sierra Leonean troops arrived.
Major General Francis Nthenge from Kenya is AMISOM’s Deputy Force Commander Support and Sector 2 commanded by Brig. Walter Koipaton Raria.
Kenya is one of several African countries that have troops in Somalia, as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia or AMISOM, which is backing the country’s weak government against an onslaught by the Islamic extremists of al-Shababs.
Hence we, the undersigned, call on the Kenya Defence Forces to immediately withdraw from the port town of Kismayo.
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The Kenya Defence Forces out of Somalia petition to Ofice of the president was written by Catherine Kjørsvik and is in the category Miscellaneous at GoPetition.