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The U.S. State Department on Tuesday 8th September 2015 highlighted its new diplomatic ties with Somalia with the reopening of a new mission in the country.
Strategically, Kenya has been chosen to host the new embassy in Somalia whose headquarters will be located in Nairobi. The US State Department said that the mission will be located not in Somalia, but in the US Embassy in neighboring Kenya with the US representative traveling back and forth from Nairobi.
Summary
The United States has renewed its diplomatic ties with Somalia that were broken in the early 1990s when the country was declared war torn.
This is marked by the opening of a United States embassy to Somalia whose headquarters will be hosted in Nairobi.
This, according to intelligence summaries, is an indicator that the war waged against Al Shabaab militants in Somalia is headed towards success as western countries show commitment to establish ties with Somalia.
The United States officially closed its embassy in Somalia on January 13th 1991 and evacuated its entire remaining staff from Mogadishu after Somali militia and armed civilian fighters shot down a US helicopter killing dozens of people.
The announcement by the United States to reopen an embassy in Somalia on Tuesday 8th September 2015 comes only a day after the Chinese government donated USD1.2 million to support the ongoing African Union mission to Somalia. This is a drive that will go a long way in ensuring the militants are brought to their knees, as resources have been one of the factors that have crippled AMISOM troops in the past.
The strategic choice of Kenya to host the US mission in Somalia also sends home the fact that Kenya, which neighbors Somalia where the terror group Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujahideen are based, can be trusted with capability to deal with the militant threats.
wonder why anyone would have an embassy there anyway ..
The hotbed of terror.
Lol.
Hahaaaa another joke
WHY NOT MOGADISHU????
what are you saying?
Y not to Ethiopia, Uganda, Tz only in Kenya?, we are inviting problems more than usual
Embassy of America-Somali will sound normal if based in Eastleigh
so when its attacked its kenyans who will suffer the most..turning kenya into a target..not forgeting assylum seekers will be accomodated in kenya under the pretex of “awaiting processing”…united states is spreading the burden of the mess it has created around the world to its allies with minimal effort,europe is takeing in syrian refugees at an alarming number of 4million of which the US has taken only 0.03%. its becomeing very expensive and a burden to be a “friend of America”
so that it can be attackd by the al-quada,alshbaab.idiocy