Powerful brick and concrete structures do not save various countries from dangerous neighbors<\/em><\/p>
With the help of a fortification structure on the border, Kenyans want to protect themselves from illegal migrants. Uninvited guests enter from Somalia, devastated by a long civil war, into a neighboring country that is prosperous by migrant standards. In Kenya, another threat is not without reason feared - sorties of Al-Shabaab militants operating on Somali territory. They really don't want a repeat of the high-profile terrorist attack in a shopping center in the Kenyan capital in 2013, for which this Somali organization, linked to Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility.<\/p>
The construction of the wall should begin any day now,' said Issa Timami, governor of Kenya's Lamu province, to the London Guardain. 'The wall will allow us to live peacefully and not fear for our lives.' Little is known yet about what the wall will look like. They want to build it from brick and stone, and run barbed wire along the top. Observation towers will be placed at certain intervals.<\/p>
In any case, Kenyans will not have to reinvent the wheel (that is, their own design of engineering structures). Many such walls have been erected on the planet in recent decades. The most famous of them is the almost 800-kilometer wall with which Israel has separated itself from Palestine. And this is perhaps the only case where such a structure is of some use. In the three years before its construction, Palestinian suicide bombers killed 293 Israeli citizens, and in the three years after, almost five times fewer, 64 people.<\/p>