Abstract: Towards the end of 2011, after a number of events which included the kidnapping of two foreigners and the killing of another in the resorts on the Kenyan east coast, the abduction of two Spanish aid workers from the Dadaab refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border, and the attack against Kenyan soldiers in cross-border raids there was a lot of concern by the Kenyan government over the issue of terrorism. The Kenyan government decided that the national security had to be upheld and this consequently led to the decision to intervene in the state of Somalia, to flush out the Al Shabaab terrorist group largely blamed for the terror attacks in Kenya. In this article we shall try to analyze if Kenya was justified in its decision, if the reasons linked to the insecurity caused by Al Shabaab in the Horn of Africa region, were sufficient to warrant the military intervention in Somalia, the International law perspective and United Nations Charter with respect to the intervention in the unstable state of Somalia.
Keywords: Terrorism, Intervention, Al Shabaab.
Title: Kenya’s Military Intervention in Somalia: Was it justified?
Author: Omedo Wycliffe, Muhatia Jackline, Clement Naimi-Caroline, Kahara Wambui, Ng’eno, KWA
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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