The AU will seek funding to help achieve the 2025 goals of strengthening peace in Somalia
The African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) has called for adequate, sustainable and reliable funding to achieve its 2025 goals after the departure of the AU Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) in December this year .
The statement of the council has said: "AUPSC welcomes the proposal of the Somali government regarding the security situation that will be after the departure of the ATMIS soldiers from the country and is considering Somalia's request to ask the AU to continue to be present in the country to help the government whenever needed."
The ATMIS force is expected to leave Somalia in December this year. But preparations continue to be made to allow the deployment of another AU team to help protect the gains made so far and ensure that Somalia does not return to the dire state of insecurity it had before the AU sent its troops to the country.
The African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC), which is the AU's decision-making body for preventing, managing and resolving conflicts, has emphasized the need to continue to support Somalia and to continue training the country's security forces which until right now it is still continuing to fight al Shabab terrorists.
Until now, ATMIS has withdrawn 5,000 soldiers from Somalia and handed over 13 military camps to the Somali Security Forces during the first and second phase of the exercise to reduce its troops in the country which ended in 2023.
The African Union team, which seems to have succeeded in its work in Somalia, is preparing to withdraw the 4,000 soldiers who remained in the country in June this year and hand over everything to the hands of the Mogadishu government.
