Somali Insurgency Driving Thousands Of Refugees To Kenya

From The Christian Science Monitor:

Islamist militias' clashes with Somalia's government has forced more than 25,000 to flee.

Hagadera, Kenya - The pirates get the headlines, but what drove Habibo Kune and her teenage son out of Somalia and into this sprawling, sand-blown refugee camp was a different group of men with guns.

Islamist militants, who've waged a two-year, blood-soaked insurgency, continue to battle progovernment forces for territory throughout southern Somalia. Since January, a surge in violence has driven more than 25,000 people into the camps of eastern Kenya – already overflowing with two decades' worth of Somali refugees – which has badly strained one of the world's largest humanitarian operations.

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My Comment: There comes a point in which Kenya's security forces cannot stop the wave of refugees that are now pouring in from Somalia .... and I guess that point is now. As the Islamic militants continue their military campaign, one can only expect the refugee problem to get worse.