Seventeen years after the African Union first deployed a mission in Somalia to weaken the violent extremist group al-Shabaab, the country is preparing for its third peace support operation, set to begin on January 1, 2025, writes Meressa K Dessu, Dawit Yohannes and Tsion Belay Alene for Institute for Security Studies.
Seventeen years after the Africa n Union first deployed a mission in Somalia to weaken the violent extremist group al-Shabaab, the country is preparing for its third peace support operation, set to begin on January 1, 2025,The AU Peace and Security Council recently approved the establishment of the AU Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia , which will replace the AU Transition Mission in Somalia . ATMIS had itself succeeded the original mission, AMISOM, in April 2022.
Somalia Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said Thursday that Ethiopian forces would not be part of the upcoming African Union Support Mission in Somalia unless Ethiopia… The Federal Government of Somalia, with the ongoing support of the international community, has been engaged in a 17-year-long fight against Al-Shabaab, one of the most powerful…
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