Eritrea denies arming Somali militant group

Eritrea has rejected Kenyan allegations that it may be arming al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, as a diplomatic row between the two countries intensifies.

Moses Wetangula, Kenya’s foreign affairs minister, said on Friday that he had summoned the Eritrean ambassador and “raised concerns about intelligence that we have and information available that there is a possibility that arms supplies are flowing from his country to al-Shabaab”.

Wetangula said Kenya, whose troops are fighting al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab fighters in southern Somalia, had “a series of options”, which he did not specify, to deal with the alleged arms supplies.

Eritrea denies arming the fighters and says such allegations are stirred up by regional rivals to sully its reputation.

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