Reports say four Kenyan police officers have been killed in an ambush in a coastal region bordering Somalia.
The attack occurred in Lamu County, where the Kenyan government
deployed security forces and declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew after the
murder of seven civilians in a series of raids earlier this week.
It was gathered that Lamu County has suffered recurrent attacks from the
al-Shabab Islamist group, often carried out with roadside bombs.
Al-Shabab fighters have staged numerous raids inside Kenya in retaliation
for Nairobi sending troops into Somalia in 2011, as part of an African
Union force to oust the jihadists.
In another development, the United Nations, UN has called on Ethiopia
forces and Tigrayan rebels to respect civilians, adding that three Eritrean’s
living in a refugee camp in Ethiopia’s Tigray region was killed in an
airstrike on Wednesday.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi said refugees
should never be a target. Conflict in the region broke out in November
2020.
