Black and White: Kenya's Criminal Racket in Somalia


Publisher: Journalists for Justice

Date: 2015

Topics: Renewable Resources

Countries: Somalia

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Since Kenya invaded Somalia in October 2011, there has been little accounting of its activities, achievements and challenges both to the National Assembly and to the public at large. There has been little independent reporting on the invasion, with coverage mostly from journalists taken on “guided” tours by the Kenya Defence Forces or with public relations videos paid for by the KDF, and now, most recently, a book. Moreover, censorship has played a role: editors described to JFJ being summoned to meetings with top military brass and told that critical stories would be considered as undermining national security. And the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea, mandated to report on violations of international law and sanctions on Somalia – including the financing of al-Shabaab and the targeting of civilians – has so far avoided looking too closely at the activities of the Kenyan military inside Somalia.