THE INTERVIEW - Kenyan FM Amina Mohamed: Al Shabaab is 'on the run'
- 10 years ago
Just over a year ago, Somali gunmen staged a four-day massacre in Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall. Since then, Kenya has been attacked several times by al Shabaab, including in the capital. But Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed is confident that the threat posed by the Islamist militant group based in neighbouring Somalia has diminished.
"Somalia is not yet out of the woods but it's doing so much better", she tells FRANCE 24’s Marc Perelman. Thanks to joint military action by the African Union and Somali troops, Al Shabaab is "on the run".
But the terror threat is not the only challenge Kenya is facing. Both its leaders, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto, are being tried by the International Criminal Court. They are accused of co-orchestrating a wave of violence following the disputed 2007 presidential election. “We are fully cooperating with the Court”, Amina Mohamed says. "The Court has raised issues, we are addressing those issues".
Some African leaders some have claimed that the ICC shows a bias against Africans, deeming the Court “racist”. "The Court needs to do some soul-searching and find out why that issue comes up”, Amina Mohamed suggests. "If it wasn’t real, it would not come up".
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"Somalia is not yet out of the woods but it's doing so much better", she tells FRANCE 24’s Marc Perelman. Thanks to joint military action by the African Union and Somali troops, Al Shabaab is "on the run".
But the terror threat is not the only challenge Kenya is facing. Both its leaders, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto, are being tried by the International Criminal Court. They are accused of co-orchestrating a wave of violence following the disputed 2007 presidential election. “We are fully cooperating with the Court”, Amina Mohamed says. "The Court has raised issues, we are addressing those issues".
Some African leaders some have claimed that the ICC shows a bias against Africans, deeming the Court “racist”. "The Court needs to do some soul-searching and find out why that issue comes up”, Amina Mohamed suggests. "If it wasn’t real, it would not come up".
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