"I am in shock and grieving", one could read on Tuesday on the Twitter account of Professor James Ole Kiyiapi. This former senior Kenyan official, a candidate in the 2013 presidential election, was mourning the death in Somalia of his "young brother Johnson Olemoi Kiyiapi". And he took the opportunity to lament the silence of the authorities about his fate, as well as that of his fellow peacekeepers. "They die incognito", he concluded, since to this day only the press has reported on the attack in which he was killed.

This attack took place Monday near the border in the Somali region of Gedo, according to local media. A Kenyan military truck in an Amisom convoy supplying Somalia with water struck an explosive device, killing between seven and nine soldiers, according to sources, and wounding five, all hospitalized in Nairobi.

As is their custom, neither Amisom nor the Kenyan army has mentioned this attack or publicly provided a casualty count. Yet photographs of the destroyed truck have circulated. And the family of Professor Ole Kiyiapi has been officially notified. Neither Amisom nor Kenya's defense forces responded to our requests to comment on this matter.