Two more countries will send troops to join a peacekeeping force protecting the embattled Somali government against al-Qaida-linked Islamist insurgents, the head of the African Union said Friday.
Djibouti and Guinea will both send troops to the Somali capital of Mogadishu, said AU commission president Jean Ping. The peacekeeping mission is authorized to send up to 8,000 soldiers, but Ping said the number may eventually rise to more than 10,000. The AU currently has about 6,000 troops from Uganda and Burundi in Somalia.
The new deployment announcement comes during a meeting of African Union leaders in Uganda, which suffered twin bombings July 11 during the World Cup final that killed 76 people. Al-Shabab, Somalia's most feared militant group, claimed responsibility for the attacks and said they were in retaliation for civilian deaths caused by AU troops.
Somalia has been regarded as a failed state for quite a while now. What steps would you recommend to end the hostilities, and to help ensure that Somalia does not become an African version of Taliban-Afghanistan?The Associated Press: AU head: More troops ready to be sent to Somalia
Worst decision ever.
Somalis in the South will unite against foreign troops even if they have to fight along side Al Shabab.
Somalia has been regarded as a failed state for quite a while now. What steps would you recommend to end the hostilities, and to help ensure that Somalia does not become an African version of Taliban-Afghanistan?
Are all fellow African nations considered foreign and unwanted in Somalia? I can understand the Ethiopia thing, but the rest of them also? And all aid? Can Somalia feed its population? Are NGOs needed for support such as food distribution and education and if so, who would protect them if all of the security forces withdrew?I would withdraw all foreign troops immediately and I mean all and allow TFG to collapse which is still being propped up by the West. I would cut off all aid to Somalia as it is misused.
I trust your analysis here. As an outsider, my principal worries include helping the Somali people sustain and govern themselves and preventing radical Islamists from over-running the country.Al Shabab has flourished in the South because it is seen as the only alternative to the TFG which is hated. The Islamists are anything but united. The only reason they have not collapsed to infighting which is inevitable in Somalia is because the presence of foreigners has kept them united. By removing their reason for unity. Somalis will turn on one another as always and fight according to clan lines. Loyalty to clan supersedes everything else. By invading Ethiopia turned Somalis problem from domestic to religious.
The solution has always been simple.
Do that and the Islamists/Al Qaeda will die by Somalis hand.
Then bring in Somaliland to mediate the clans. As fellow Somali's, we will not been seen as foreigners. Somaliland's neutrality can be seen as a blessing by the South and doing so, we can also host the talks using the same method which brought peace up North. Without Arabs, without the West, without any foreign interference which has been so detrimental to Somalia.
Are all fellow African nations considered foreign and unwanted in Somalia? I can understand the Ethiopia thing, but the rest of them also? And all aid? Can Somalia feed its population? Are NGOs needed for support such as food distribution and education and if so, who would protect them if all of the security forces withdrew?
I trust your analysis here. As an outsider, my principal worries include helping the Somali people sustain and govern themselves and preventing radical Islamists from over-running the country.
As an outsider, my principal worries include helping the Somali people sustain and govern themselves and preventing radical Islamists from over-running the country.
And honestly, I cant think of one. We're damned if we intervene and we're damned if we don't.
-- Yes the aid cut will lead to death but no more than what is happening already--
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