When a Somali interpreter from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) approached Idil in July 2013 asking her to “befriend” a Ugandan soldier in exchange for money, she was struggling to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Successes and failures in Kenya's eight-year-long military campaign against al-Shabaab are examined in a recently published history of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom).

The end of 2021 was the deadline for the withdrawal of African Union peace mission forces from Somalia. But increasing violence and the country’s uncertain political future makes that unlikely. In the ...

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday voted to extend the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) by three months to allow Mogadishu to negotiate an agreeable future of the ...

In January 2007, the African Union launched its fourth peacekeeping operation, the AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Now approximately two and a half years old, AMISOM’s short life has not been a happy ...

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has vowed to investigate reports that it has been using "child soldiers" in the troubled Horn of Africa country. "AMISOM is concerned to learn that a ...

How can the details of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) shed light on the major questions about peace enforcement missions and the international partnerships that underpin them? African ...

The African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Thursday said its peacekeeping forces together with those of Somalia undertook a military operation against Al Shabab in Mogadishu, which resulted in ...

A team from Task Force Sparta, assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, is teaching lifesaving skills to Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) combat engineer soldiers and officers during Deliberate ...

Nearly 30 military officers from African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troop contributing countries met in Nairobi, Kenya, for a staff officers course administered by the U.S. State Department's ...

The African Union Mission to Somalia’s time is drawing to a close. It’s scheduled to exit in December 2021, after the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) extended the 28 February mandate deadline.

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Top AMISOM and Federal Government of Somalia officials are meeting in Mogadishu over the next five days to discuss ...