Author: By Abdi Mohamed

Members of the Somali National Army during a previous training. [Courtesy, UNSOS] Regional leaders head to the United Nations General Assembly this month where a side meeting will focus on securing financing for the AU’s new mission in Somalia, AUSSOM. Yet this discussion may be coming a little too late. The Somali government has already lost crucial momentum in managing the security transition, muddling offensives once hailed as a turning point, and is now heading into a political transition far riskier than those before it. Without urgent regional engagement, Somalia risks sliding into a crisis that no amount of pledges…

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