A large deployment of forces is underway along the border between Kenya and Somalia.
The Kenyan armed forces were widely deployed along the border with the Gedo region (extreme south of Somalia) and particularly at the El-Wakh border pass.
“Military troops, police and armoured vehicles are massed at the El-Wakh village in Kenya”, said this morning a local correspondent of a top Mogadishu radio.
Residents of villages of the Gedo region along the border confirmed the troop movements on the other side of the border, specifying that the first reinforcements began arriving in the zone shortly after the militants of the Islamic Courts on September 25 seized the city of Kismaayo.
Kenyan authorities mainly fear that the armed elements that controlled the city before the arrival of the Courts – the men of the Juba Valley Alliance (JVA) – cross over the border into Kenyan territory.
There are no confirmations from the Kenyanb side.
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