Kenya seeks support for Somalia peacekeeping (Lets roll!)

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MAPUTO (Reuters) - Kenya appealed on Thursday for international financing for a peacekeeping mission in Somalia to enforce a peace deal it hopes to reach soon in the east African country that recalls bitter memories for U.S. peacekeepers.

"We are looking to the international community, to Europe and the United States to dig deep into their pockets to fund the massively important operation," Kenyan Foreign Minister Kalonzo Musyoka told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of an African Union summit in the Mozambique capital Maputo.

"You cannot achieve peace in Somalia without an enforcement element," he added.

Somalia has been virtually without a government for more than a decade following the ousting of President Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991. Warlords from the main clans have jostled for power ever since and have sliced the country into fiefdoms.

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