Kenya on alert as Somalia fighting nears border
The Islamic Courts Council, which left its last stronghold on Monday after two weeks of war with Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian armour, has pledged to fight on after melting into the hills between the Indian Ocean port of Kismayu and Kenya.
The Somali interim government is seeking to install itself in the capital, breaking out from the provincial outpost of Baidoa, which had been threatened when the Islamists took over much of southern Somalia in June.
