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Somalia
AMISOM's future looks bleak

AMISOM Sector 5 Commander, Brig. Gen. Télesphore Barandereka (Second from right) visits a Field Operating Base (FOB) in Ceel Macaan, Middle Shabele region of Hirshabele State in Somalia on 11 June 2021. © AMISOM

Two separate independent reports have been commissioned in less than a year on the future of the African Union's intervention force in Somalia. They agree on what the many problems are, but not on what needs to be done to fix them. [...]

Published on 27/07/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 4 minutes

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Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

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From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Somalia
AMISOM's future looks bleak

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Farmajo bets on the collapse of relations with Amisom

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Post-AMISOM future begins to take shape

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Farmajo fights back in wake of AU report

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