Nairobi (Sunatimes) Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki has urged world leaders to quickly provide Somalia with the resources needed to prevent Al-Shabaab insurgents from regrouping following their withdrawal from the capital, Mogadishu.

Speaking at the United Nations mini-summit on Somalia in New York, Kibaki whose country host hundreds of thousand of Somali refugees in Dadaab refugee complex, said the international community should enhance AMISOM and TFG troops’ capabilities in tackling the rebel group.

He said increased assistance would enable the federal government to extend its control beyond the capital, Mogadishu.

Kibaki added that it will also enable AMISOM to deal effectively with additional and complex tasks such as the provision of humanitarian aid and protection of civilians and the needed assistance must be deployed quickly to forestall the regrouping of Al-Shabaab.

He told the UN meeting that Somalia’s instability was “placing a lot of pressure on refugee camps and related social services as well as host communities”.

By Siham Mohamud