Horn of Africa States: Somalia to Continue Suffering Under Another Foreign Force – Tribune

AMISOM was first deployed to Somalia in 2007. It replaced another African mission called IGADSOM, a peacekeeping force sent by the East African grouping IGAD or the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, which replaced an earlier NGO called IGADD or the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Desertification, which was established in 1986 but failed miserably in fulfilling the initial mission of combating desertification and droughts in the region.

Both IGAD and IGADD are made up of countries from the Horn of Africa and East Africa. These countries include the victim, Somalia, which has had no say in the affairs of the organization; Djibouti, its headquarters; Ethiopia, its major power; Sudan, a country as messed up as Somalia; Uganda; South Sudan; another conflict-ridden country, Eritrea; and Kenya, another country with deep interests in Somalia.

IGAD has been transformed into a security institution because it plays little or no role in regional development. Its first action was to send a large contingent of Ethiopian forces, the only IGADSOM contingent, to Somalia in 2006. This Ethiopian contingent was ousted by a popular Somali uprising in early 2007. It was replaced by AMISOM or the African Union Mission in Somalia the same year.

AMISOM has been replaced by another African Union mission, the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS). These missions all have one thing in common: the failure of their missions. ATMIS was supposed to leave the country at the end of 2024, but it is now clear that the African Union does not want to leave the country.

A new mission has already been created to start operations in the country on January 1.^st2025. The new mission will be called the African Union Stabilization and Support Mission in Somalia (AUSSO). The African Union must choke! Why does it want to repeat the same fruitless efforts for over 17 years?

But perhaps they have not failed. They are in the country to ensure that it does not rise up again. As long as they are in the country, the Somali National Army will never be able to prove itself and its ability to keep the country safe.

Religious terrorist groups started to establish themselves in the country just before the arrival of the first IGADSOM mission. Is this a coincidence? This is a reasonable question that reasonable people ask. If terrorist groups are still present in the country, what were the African missions doing in Somalia for the last seventeen years? This is a reasonable question that the African Union should pay attention to and answer. The Somali leaders and people should question their presence in the country.

There seems to be a link between the African Union missions and the terrorist groups present in the country. Every time the mandate of the African Union missions is about to expire, the religious terrorist groups intensify their terrorist activities in the country, especially in the south of the country, such as in Mogadishu, where a devastating bomb attack was recently carried out by religious terrorists, killing and injuring a large population of youths in a beach hotel in the city.

Immediately afterwards, we now learn that the African Union is going to replace its ATMIS mission with a new force – AUSSOM. awesome This force would certainly do no better than its predecessors, as long as some hidden forces want a foreign military presence in the country, or so it seems.

The African Union Peace and Security Council has certainly failed in its mission in Somalia and should be ashamed of itself for continuing to propose a replacement force. When an employee fails to fulfill his responsibilities, he is usually fired. The employee can cause more damage. The so-called African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) has certainly failed in its mission in Somalia and should leave and not be allowed to operate in the country.

Somalis should know that Africans are not in Somalia to bring peace or security to the country but to earn a few dollars from Europeans and Americans who “indirectly” pay for their services. Is it the Europeans or the Americans who are pushing for their presence in the country? We do not know, but they should be right about the Somalis – all those countries that pushed for the presence of unnecessary foreign troops in the country.

Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom are the countries that support the development of the Somali National Army. They should declare that they have failed in their mission to justify the presence of unwanted and unjustified African forces, mainly from neighboring countries that have interests in the country. This is unfair to Somalia and the Somalis, even if the country’s leaders are not up to the task and responsibilities expected of them.

It is clear that Somalia has been neglected by the international community and its people have not been more forgiving towards each other. It is strange that the country is subjected to the horrors of terrorism managed and financed from outside Somalia and that the foolish Africans all want to live off the blood of the poor Somalis in the easternmost region of the continent.

History will tell us who was involved in the mistreatment of the country and its people. But they certainly do not need the Egyptians who are being presented as part of the new force that will come to Somalia or, for that matter, any other party, to defend Somalia. Egypt should defend its own people who are being massacred next door, instead of coming all the way to Somalia.

Egypt is not interested in the welfare of Somalia, only in the waters of the Nile, which Ethiopia has dammed, or perhaps in Bab El Mandab, which is the gateway to the Suez Canal, which is a major source of income for the country. They could have done a better job in the early 1990s when Somalia needed them. They certainly did not and the Somalis do not need them today. They should know this, even if the current Somali leaders do not tell them. The Somalis do not like the Egyptians or what they represent! They would not help Somalia and would cause even more damage. The coming days will tell.

The African Union or its donors, whoever they may be, should spend all the money that is meant to be spent on what is called Awesome A new force in Somalia, the Somali National Army. They would do a better job than any other party. They know how to defend their country against any party or die in the process.

The UN and the African Union should leave Somalia alone. They have not been good for the country, any more than they have been good for any other country. They could have done something for Haiti, the DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, Ukraine or Kashmir, or to address the ongoing violence against poor children and women in West Asia, or to address the many countries in trouble or in turmoil.

Perhaps it is time for Somali leaders to realize the importance of their country and people and say “NO” to the intervention of foreign forces in the country. But it is their responsibility and history will forever remember their actions.

It is not true that Somalia needs foreign forces to ensure peace and stability. It needs a process of national reconciliation and for its clans to make peace among themselves in the Somali way, under the leadership of the head of state. TREEthe traditional Somali courthouse, not unlike a European courthouse that originated in a courtyard, those empty treeless places of old, where one could see oneself in the wooded Europe of old.

National reconciliation between clans would involve depriving terrorist groups of their clan shelters and prohibiting them from establishing themselves in the different regions and clan territories. They would no longer have space to accumulate, hide and collect weapons.

They would not be able to claim protection funds, they would ask for zakat from anyone and they would be exposed wherever they went. The foreign elements of the terrorist groups that are leading the operations in the country would have no place to hide and there would be no place for masked men and women in the country.

Poor Somalia must not continue to suffer under the yoke of foreign forces and the country’s leaders must have the wisdom and common sense, at least, to see the future of the country through the Somali prism and not through that of others, as seems to be the case.