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| Africa Horn |
| African Force in Somalia Gets New Commander as Uganda Plans Exit |
| 2016-07-21 |
| [BLOOMBERG] A new commander took control of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force battling al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz in Somalia as Uganda said it wants to withdraw its troops from the war-torn nation by the end of next year. Lieutenant General Osman Noor Soubagleh arrived Monday in the capital, Mogadishu, becoming force commander of the African Union Mission in Somalia, or Amisom, the organization said in a statement. The Horn of Africa country’s elections, due this year, are one of the mission’s main priorities, according to Amisom head Francisco Madeira. Uganda’s foreign minister last week said the East African nation plans to remove its almost 7,000 troops from Somalia by the end of 2017. While a partial cut in European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... funding for soldiers has been a "handicap," it’s not the main reason for Uganda wanting out, Sam Kutesa said in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, where he was attending an African Union summit. "What we are interested in is to make sure we create a situation where the people of Somalia take over the security because we cannot be there forever," he said in a July 15 interview. "Uganda is not interested in perpetuating peacekeeping missions without a foreseeable outcome." |
| Posted by:Fred |