{"id":33251,"date":"2023-05-12T07:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=33251"},"modified":"2023-05-12T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:40:08","slug":"uk-in-deal-with-kenya-ethiopia-and-somalia-to-fight-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/05\/12\/uk-in-deal-with-kenya-ethiopia-and-somalia-to-fight-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"UK in deal with Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia to fight terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK has signed an agreement with Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia aimed at tackling the causes of instability in the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the BBC, UK Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said the agreement &#8211; worth some $12.5m (\u00a39.9m) \u2013 will support the three countries to come up with policies in their fight against terrorism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the first time high-level officials from Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia have accepted international support to address a common problem along their borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These borderlands are usually isolated and insecure, which makes it difficult for countries to monitor threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Tugendhat believes that al-Shabab militants conduct terror activities in these areas because there is no governing authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The militants have carried out a series of attacks within the region in recent months and the group remains a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funding from the UK is also aimed at empowering local communities to effectively report suspected terror-related incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has signed an agreement with Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia aimed at tackling the causes of instability in the region.&nbsp; Speaking to the BBC, UK Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said the agreement &#8211; worth some $12.5m (\u00a39.9m) \u2013 will support the three countries to come up with policies in their fight against terrorism.&nbsp; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11394,2735,4024,1572,10954,1063,5655,1361,11089,9151,12605,3954],"class_list":["post-33251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-attacks","tag-bbc","tag-common","tag-ethiopia","tag-international","tag-kenya","tag-security","tag-somalia","tag-terror","tag-terrorism","tag-uk","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}