Kenya: Let's Talk to the Shabaab, Somalia Won't Be Pacified By Military Means

29 October 2011
opinion

Foreign Affairs assistant minister Richard Onyonka has taken a lot of flak for suggesting that the government will talk to the Al-Shabaab with a view to finding a settlement that could end the war in Somalia.

I would say that Mr Onyonka is right and his many critics are wrong. Here is the thing about Al-Shabaab. It is too simplistic to see it only as a "terrorist organisation".

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