Kenya and Somalia.

Along with Ethiopia and Djibouti Kenya is still in the grips of a food crisis. It's neighbour Somalia is still experiencing a full blown famine. Britain's response to the crisis was to send in special forces from the Special Boat Service (SBS) who have been operating in Somalia since May 2011. In September 2011 a British couple were kidnapped by persons unknown from a holiday resort on the Kenya/Somalia border. As the SBS were mobilised to search for the kidnapped couple Britain felt the whole thing was a Kenyan attempt to track the special forces operating in Somalia and responded by blowing up a fuel pipeline in Nairobi killing at least 100.

This led to a spate of kidnappings along the Kenya/Somalia border. These included the incident on October 13th when armed men crossed into Kenya from Somalia and kidnapped two Spanish aid workers from the Ifo refugee camps and brought them back over the border into Somalia. Assuming that the men were from the al-Shabab militia the Kenya army then crossed into Somalia on a search and rescue mission. As this operation has now been going on for more then two weeks and the aid workers have not been located let alone rescued the mission seems to have been a failure. However both Britain and France have offered Kenya logistical support and weapons in return for turning the mission into a bridgehead for a full scale Kenyan invasion of Somalia. Clearly because the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to draw the line over Libya Britain and France have got a taste for getting Africans to kill each other and think they can do what they like.