August 11, 2021: The government protested UN and AU (African Union) plans to greatly reduce or eliminate the current 19,400 strong peacekeeper force This process is supposed to start by the end of 2021 In January the
SOMALIA: Ancient Cycle Remains Unbroken April 21, 2021: The months-long deadlock over when and how to hold the next national elections has turned violent and threatens to escalate into another civil war sooner or later. President Farmajo is using Turkish trained troops to control Mogadishu and refusing to hold the long-delayed elections. Foreign donors are threatening to stop supplying the cash that enables the national government to exist at all. The UN is caught in the middle as they are desperate to retain whatever national unity has been achieved since 2011 when a UN backed (paid for) peacekeeping force drove al Shabaab out of Mogadishu and other urban areas the Islamic terror group has taken control of. Al Shabaab had itself started with good intentions.