Kenya and Somalia agree to phased border reopening
Kenyan minister of Interior Kithure Kindiki (L) and Somali Internal Security Minister Mohamed Ahmed Sheikh Ali attend a joint press conference on re-opening the border between Kenya and Somali at Harambee House in Nairobi on May 15, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
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What you need to know:
The frontier had been officially closed in October 2011 because of attacks on Kenyan soil by the radical Islamist Somali group Al-Shabaab, which has been waging an insurgency against the central government in Mogadishu for more than 15 years.
