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US President Barack Obama has pledged more support to the ongoing United Nations mission in Somalia by providing military, police and civilian personnel to support or participate in the operations.
The White House released the memo on Tuesday 29th September 2015, a day after a similar pledge of support was offered by Britain.
David Cameron, United Kingdom’s Prime Minister announced on 28th September of the deployment of dozens of British troops into Somalia for peacekeeping mission to counter the Al Shabaab militants.
Summary
The US has re-energized her support for the ongoing operations to liberate Somalia from the Al Shabaab by pledging to deploy a massive number of personnel to the terror plagued country.
An unspecified number of military men, police and civilian personnel will in the coming days be deployed to Somalia battle fields and instructional as well as engineering departments in Somalia to support the ongoing efforts by the United Nations peacekeepers in fighting the Al Shabaab.
In a memo released on Tuesday 29th September by the White House, US has said that the deployment cannot adversely impact current or projected US operations elsewhere. The US is greatly involved in the ongoing crisis in Iraq and Syria. US presence also continues to be felt in Yemen even as the region faces a more adverse crisis.
The increase in support to the United Nations is needed, given the critical U.S. national security interest in propping up weak states and preventing, containing, and resolving armed conflict.
The US is concerned that, “Left unassisted, many of fragile states, where conflict festers and development stagnates, could become hosts of violent extremism; afford safe havens that transnational terrorists and criminals exploit; generate large flows of refugees and displaced persons that can destabilize neighboring countries and sow regional instability; create humanitarian emergencies; facilitate the spread of pandemic disease; and increase the risk of mass atrocities.” The White House memo reads.
The deployed military personnel will no doubt be aligned to the UN and AMISOM mandate and command. They will be split into units that’ll work in the various AMISOM Military sectors in Somalia.
They are coming to train them but not to fight them. Remember the black hawk down
The war will accelerate we were doing final touches east africa tumeisha
It’s abit too late after KDF has done most of the fighting.
uk and us have seen the war is bout to end hence joining the race to finish line for common victory celebration.welcome at 999 steps