The African Union (AU) has reiterated its resolve to support Somalia’s peace and security sector efforts towards ensuring stability amid the ongoing drawdown of the AU troops in the troubled Horn of Africa country.
The statement was made by the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Smail Chergui, as he expressed the AU’s “unwavering commitment to support Somalia and help facilitate achievement of the objectives of the Somalia Transition Plan,” the 55-member pan African bloc disclosed in a statement issued late Wednesday.
The AU Commissioner made the remarks during the latest meeting of the AMISOM Operations Coordination Committee (MOCC), which brought together military chiefs of the eight troop-contributing African countries to Somalia that are Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Ghana.
According to the AU, the military chiefs mainly deliberated on the drawdown of an additional one thousand AMISOM uniformed personnel by February 28, 2020 as part of the AU mission’s exit strategy.
