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Somalia cuts ties with Kenya, shots fired at Mogadishu protests

Somalia cuts ties with Kenya, shots fired at Mogadishu protests

ABDI SHEIKH SOMALIA has cut diplomatic relations with neighbouring Kenya, accusing it of meddling in politics as protests and gunfire erupted in the capital Mogadishu over delayed elections. The dispute could undermine cooperation in the fight against the Islamist group al Shabaab in Somalia, where Kenya provides 3,600 troops to an African Union peacekeeping force. "Somalia calls back all its diplomats from Kenya and orders Kenyan diplomats to leave Somalia within seven days," Somali Information Minister Osman Dube told the state news agency. Dube added in a statement read on Radio Mogadishu that Nairobi was interfering, but did not give…
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