Kenya's Toxic Mix - Juba Debacle Shows Kenyatta's Government in Its Worst Light

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When Lieutenant-General Johnson Ondieki was sacked as the United Nations peacekeeping boss in South Sudan last week, Kenya was incensed. But the outraged response says more about Kenya's current government than it does about the rights and wrongs of the situation. By SIMON ALLISON.

Last week, the United Nations sacked Lieutenant-General Johnson Ondieki, the commander of the international peacekeeping force in South Sudan. Ondieki took the fall for the failure of peacekeepers to prevent widespread civilian casualties and human rights abuses during renewed fighting in Juba this July, most notably the attack by government troops on a humanitarian compound.

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