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| UN extends African Union mission in Somalia |
| 2021-12-23 |
| [Garowe] 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... Mission in Somalia [AMISOM] will stay for three more months in Somalia, following a resolution by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Security Council [UNSC], which took a vote on Tuesday evening over the fate of the peacekeepers. The vote, UNSC said, will allow the African Union and Somalia to negotiate until March 31, 2022, over the future of peacekeeping troops. The mandate was supposed to expire on December 31, 2021, upon full implementation of the Somali Transition Plan [STP]. The decision reached under Resolution 2614/2021 was adopted on Tuesday night, granting the peacekeeping force the needed certainty as Somalia and the African Union haggle on whether to completely withdraw or rebrand to an AU-UN hybrid mission. |
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