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Mandera Governor Ali Roba decries ‘hopeless’ security situation in region

Mandera Governor Ali Roba survived a terror attack on his Convoy on Friday.

The governor of northern Kenya's Mandera County on Monday attacked what he called a "hopeless" security situation due to a wave of cross-border attacks by Somalia's Al Shabaab militants.

Speaking in the capital Nairobi, Ali Roba said he had survived six attempts on his life -- including an ambush of his convoy on Friday -- and questioned why Kenyan soldiers were part of an African Union force supporting Somalia's government while leaving their own country unprotected.

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