UN determined to help Africa fight terrorism: Ban
Channel News Asia - 2 hours ago
The United Nations is determined to help Kenya and other countries in
Africa fight "terrorism" following a series of deadly attacks,
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday.
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 File photo: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York.
(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)
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NAIROBI: The United Nations is determined to help Kenya and other
countries in Africa fight "terrorism" following a series of deadly
attacks, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday.
Speaking in the capital Nairobi, he said he had talked with Kenyan
President Uhuru Kenyatta "at length" about how the UN and Kenyan
government can work together in countering "heinous" attacks.
"(The) UN is determined to work together with the Kenyan government in
helping enhancing the capacities of the Kenyan government and many
African countries who are suffering from this international
terrorism," he said, although he did not give further details of what
form any assistance might take.
He also told reporters that their talks had also covered major
political and security issues concerning counter-terrorism in the
region.
Kenya has been the scene of a series of attacks attributed to the
Somali Al-Qaeda-linked group Shebab and their supporters since Kenya
sent troops over the border to help fight the group in 2011.
The Shebab claimed responsibility for the assault on the Westgate
shopping centre that killed at least 67 people in the Kenyan capital
in September last year as well as for two nighttime attacks on the
Kenyan coast in the middle of June that claimed around 60 lives.
Shebab rebels said they carried out the attacks in retaliation for
Kenya's military presence in Somalia and the Kenyan government's
"brutal oppression" of Muslims, although the Kenyan President blamed
"local political networks" for the killings.
During their interview, the president and secretary-general also
discussed Somalia, the crisis-hit South Sudan, and the Great Lakes
region, where tensions remain high between the Democratic Republic of
Congo and Rwanda.
Ban arrived in the Kenyan capital at the close of a UN Environment
summit. As part of the trip he also visited the Nairobi National Park
where the UN is working to fight the traffic in fauna and flora, and
where he adopted a six-month old lion cub. - AFP/nd.
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