Is the Kenyan government paying a price for deliberately not intervening earlier in solving the Somali crisis, which has been ongoing for two decades? This is the first thought that came to my mind last week when suspected al-Shabab sympathizers hurled grenades at innocent civilians in Nairobi. One would expect Kenya to have intervened in the Somali crisis as early as the 90's, because the two countries share a boarder and an ocean. - Another factor bonding the two nations is the large Somali ethnic population which occupies Kenya’s entire North Eastern province. Unfortunately, when the former Somali president Mohamed Siyad Barre was over thrown in 1991, Kenya turned a blind eye o…

- By Hassan Isilow This weekend was a grieving one for the Somali refugee community in the Western Cape. Three of their nationals were murdered in robberies at different Townships around Cape Town. According to activists working with Somali refugees in Bellville, the first Somali national was killed at his shop in Kraaifontein on Tuesday. The second was also gunned down in a robbery at his shop in Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, the third was killed on Saturday, while delivering goods at a shop in Philippi Township. The deceased was identified as 30 year old Abdi Mohamud. According to family sources, Mohamud was shot while offloading goods at a sho…