... the personification of Somali state failure...snuffies have recaptured some areas previously secured by Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and other foreign forces in the Middle and Lower Shabelle regions, in Somalia.
Al-Shabaab has recently launched lethal operations mostly in areas where forces under 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in Somalia (AMISOM), which later became African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and now AUSSOM, have been withdrawn as part of the drawdown process.
Jacob Markson Oboth, Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, has confirmed that al-Shabaab has recaptured many areas. Oboth has informed his counterparts from countries contributing peacekeeping forces in Somalia that numbers now need to be increased if they are to encounter the fast gains being made by al-Shabaab.
"I want to inform you that al-Shabaab is recapturing many places which had previously been secured. There is an urgent need to counter the growing threats posed by al-Shabaab and reinforce ongoing stabilisation efforts in Somalia," Oboth said.
Oboth was speaking to his counterparts and commanders of peacekeeping forces in Somalia at the ongoing evaluation meeting in Kampala. Commanders and senior security delegates from Kenya, Æthiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, and Egypt are in Kampala for an evaluation meeting for the mission, which started in 2007.
Al-Shabaab has become more lethal ever since they ransacked the UPDF Base at Buulo-Mareer, Lower Shabelle region on May 26, 2023, where they left 54 Ugandan soldiers dead.
The base commander, Lt Col Edward Nyororo, was among the 54 killed soldiers, while others were captured alive.
UPDF, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), and Burundi have been reduced in the last year since United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
Security Council permanent member countries withdrew their funding at the end of 2021, claiming that AMISOM forces had outlived their purpose.
UPDF reduced its forces from more than 6,000 to around 3,000. Still, according to various commanders from Troops Contributing Countries(TCCs), a number that had been reduced needs to be increased to counter the lethal attacks launched by al-Shabaab.