US to support Kenya's action against Somalia,US ‘has spent $10m on arms aid to Somalia’

The U.S government has pledged support for the Kenyan government in whichever step it decides to take in protecting the country's borders from the Al-Shabaab Militia group in Somalia.
While visiting victims of the fighting in Somalia at a Nairobi hospital, U.S ambassador Michael Rannerberger said America had already supplied Somalia's transitional government with some weapons and ammunition to help the government fight back the militia groups.
Ahmed Osman Abdulahi, the chief security officer for Hiran region in Somalia told the ambassador that the situation was terrible in Somalia and Kenya should move with speed to protect its borders.
"Don't take Al-Shabaab's threats to attack Kenya lightly, go ahead and protect Kenya's borders," he said. ..more..http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=58227
US ‘has spent $10m on arms aid to Somalia’
The US government has provided about 40 tonnes of weapons and ammunition to Somalia’s embattled government in the past six weeks to help it fight Islamist insurgents, a senior US official said on Saturday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the United States spent less than $10 million on what he described as small arms and ammunition as well as on payments to other nations to train Somali government forces.
While the State Department confirmed on Thursday that it was providing weaponry to the government, it had not previously provided details on the type, cost or amount.
The senior State Department official told reporters the United States began providing the arms soon after Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents began a major offensive against the fragile transitional federal government (TFG) in early May.
Al Shabaab, which is seen as a proxy for al Qaeda, controls most of south Somalia and all but a few blocks of the capital Mogadishu. The official said Washington feared that it could destabilise the region and turn Somalia into a safe haven for foreign Islamists and “global terrorists.”..more..http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/616070/-/139cxkuz/-/index.html