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Kenya: UN monitors say Somalia nearing an explosion Mon. November 27, 2006 10:47 am. - Bonny Apunyu (SomaliNet) The United Nations (UN) monitors in Kenyan capital Nairobi, have warned that Somalia is nearing explosion. According to the press, the UN team say at least a few US-based Somalia-watchers warn the country is careening toward a full-scale civil war that could spill into neighbouring states, including Kenya. Others, however, caution against what they say are exaggerations, distortions and flat-out errors contained in the report by the panel monitoring the ineffective UN arms embargo against Somalia. The four-member UN team is based in Nairobi and includes a Kenyan maritime expert, Harjit Singh Kelley. Much of the information included in the controversial United Nations' report, which names Uganda and nine other countries as violators of the arms embargo, was gathered from the intelligence units of Western embassies in Nairobi. "In terms of regional implications, the presence of Ethiopia and Uganda on one side and Eritrea and Djibouti on the other greatly complicates any political solution as all four are members of the east African peace body Igad which led to the peace talks that produced the interim government," the report says. Uganda is said to have supplied the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) with parts for anti-aircraft guns and supplies for building a military camp. The UN report also says Uganda has sent troops to Baidoa, the city where the TFG is based. The number of UPDF soldiers inside Somalia is not specified in the report, but sources cited by Reuters have placed the total at about 100. However, the Ugandan Defence Minister Ruth Nankabirwa rejected the allegations in the leaked report. "There is no truth in that at all," she told The Daily Monitor in response to the UN team's contention that Uganda is violating the Somalia arms embargo in various ways. But in a sign of confusion within the Ugandan government's upper echelons, Security Minister Amama Mbabazi acknowledged in subsequently published comments that the UPDF has indeed deployed troops in support of the weak Somalia government. News Category: East Africa Latest Headlines Latest News East Africa threatened by soaring food prices-O... Somalia: 9 civilians killed by Ethiopian soldiers i... Nigerian drug trafficker beheaded in the holy city o... Nigeria: Militant group threatens to attack oil pipe... Philippines to send over 300 soldiers to Liberia for... Nigeria: 12 killed as petrol tanker burst into flame... U.S: Man shoots three people at community college <... Iran: Fresh nuclear talks could resume- says top offi... South Africa: UN boss plans to name SA judge for top... Asia: Jet pilot could face life in prison for ‘delib... More News...