Somalia: AMISOM is fully composed of neighbouring states forces

MOGADISHU (HAN) April 10. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.By. Joakim Gundel. Interestingly, when AMISOM was initially established to protect the new TFG from 2009 and onwards, the idea was that it should not be composed be forces from the neighboring states due to the risk of complicating the mission with the interests of the neigbouring states. Now, 5 years later AMISOM is fully composed of neighbouring states forces, with all the implications of complicating interests involved.

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