MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Somali government has rejected a report from the African Union (AU) which proposed four ways in which the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) could be modified.
Government Spokesman Mohamed Moalimuu said the report of the Independent Assessment Team on the African Union’s Engagement in and with Somalia post-2021 which came as Amisom nears the end of its extended mandate in Somalia which is due by December 2021 will be welcome in the horn of Africa nation.
“The Somali government held an inter-ministerial meeting to discuss the report and has rejected from the outset the report’s finding and recommendations and will issue a formal statement,” Moalimuu said.
Earlier in the week, a technical team of experts from the five countries said they accepted the proposal to turn Amisom, which has been essentially a combat force, into a multidimensional force with a hybrid formation of AU and UN, which will work on total stabilisation of Somalia, including security, humanitarian and political rebuilding of the country.
“In the ensuing deliberations, the technical experts of the Amisom (Troop contributing Countries) TCCs observed that the containment of threats to peace and security in Somalia still existed,” the technical team said in a statement after meeting in Nairobi last Sunday.
“In particular, the technical experts regretted that Somalia had become a threat to international peace and security due to chronic instability in that country, a situation that had been worsened by and nourished the existence of terroristic elements in Somalia.”
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