ISS Seminar, Pretoria Office, Somalia: To intervene or not to intervene?
Date: 2010-08-05
Venue: ISS Conference Room,
Block C, Brooklyn Court,
361 Veale Street,
New Muckleneuk,
(Parking in Brooklyn Mall and ABSA court)
RSVP: Khunjulwa Peter
Tel (012) 346 9500
Fax (012) 460 0997/ 086 508 1660
E-mail [email protected]
Presented by the Peace Missions Programme (PMP)
On 23 July 2010, just before the African Union Summit in Kampala concluded, the AU Commission Chairperson, Jean Ping, said that he had asked countries such as South Africa, Angola, Nigeria, Ghana and Guinea to send troops to Somalia to boost the currently under-strength African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). This announcement came against the backdrop of the Somali group al-Shabaab’s suicide attacks in Kampala that claimed the lives of 76 people, and in the wake of increased attacks on Ugandan and Burundian troops in Mogadishu.
The jury is still out on the question of whether the countries now being approached by Jean Ping will be willing to deploy troops to Somalia, especially given the deeply unstable situation in Mogadishu and, if they do, what the practical impact of the reinforcements will be.
SPEAKERS
Festus Aboagye
Senior Researcher Fellow PMP, Pretoria
Henri Boshoff
Programme Head PMP, Pretoria
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