A new project aims to reopen the official border crossings between Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, which have been partially or fully closed in recent years due to security issues.
Speaking in the border town of Mandera during the launch, Kenya’s Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua said the project will improve socio-economic development between the three countries.
« Infrastructural development is silenced by armed conflicts, we must silence the gun for the industries to roar back, we must silence the violence for socio-economic prosperity, » he said.
The U.K.-funded initiative dubbed « Deris Wanaag » in Somali, which translates to « Good Neighborliness, » aims to find a lasting solution to the perennial insecurity and instability in the Horn of Africa nations.
