https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ihS81nNro

africaken254:
Ethiopia MI-24/35 Hind deployed last year in somalia,baidoa

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ihS81nNro

Amisom needs 9,000 more soldiers ahead of exit plans

At least 9,000 additional soldiers are needed to facilitate the peace process in Somalia. The African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) however warned countries against using the troops they are contributing as a bargaining tool for power. "States should not use Amisom troops to place demands," said Fransisco Madeira, the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia (SRCC). "These soldiers give so much, including their lives. It is better to find other avenues through which to make demands," he added. This came barely a week after Kenya began withdrawing close to 1,000 Kenya Defence Forces soldiers from the troubled South Sudan following a diplomatic tiff with the UN. President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered the withdrawal of Kenyan troops from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) after its Kenyan commander, Lt Johnson Ondieki, was sacked for allegedly failing to protect civilians when the war broke out in the world's youngest nation.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000223840/amisom-needs-9-000-more-soldiers-ahead-of-exit-plans

Henry240:


Perhaps if you take out time to read, the agreements France had with thier colonies pre-independence, you won't be asking this question.

While you're at it, read up on their currency and the post-independence relationship.


British and French colonial governments do not run the same way.


You lot should take out time to read up on things you're ignorant about before making bold claims on the internet.


Thanks.

africaken254:
fighting ,tracking and killing cut throat jihadist not rebels

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gouLYTivg-g

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrRyo8exHb8

africaken254:
Ghana are cowards ,AU told you to deploy your troops to somalia. you delayed your deployment (which never happened)until uganda opted to deploy its troop.so stop lecturing me about pan-africanism. if those cowards you call your army could have deployed in somalia like sierra leoneans troops then we could have a discourse on the matter

Obostone:
Third pic Navy

africaken254:
i recently watched a south africa documentary ,in which one of those recent enrich black south africans(a business lady).who was in the diamond business(which she had recently started),was talking about going to central africa republic to bring more diamonds and here your trying to convince me,it was just a training mission !?

Obostone:


Our police are there as we speak and what was Nigeria doing at the time plus did u see any country from other African country outside of West Africa leading ECOWAS troops. Ghana is not coward for sure, we think strategically. Stop this hate speeches I am not lecturing u on Pan-Africanism just pointing out simple interest of a nation, France is doing well when it comes to their interest.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_vvgllf8dE

Insurgents in Sierra Leone Kill 7 in U.N. Peacekeeping Force

United Nations attempt to take charge of security in the West African country of Sierra Leone has exploded in violence, with rebels killing seven peacekeepers, all Kenyans, and taking hostage at least 49 other peacekeepers and civilians, officials said yesterday.

Rebels of the Revolutionary United Front, who made a grisly name for themselves by chopping limbs off thousands of civilians during an eight-year civil war that ended last year, detained members of the United Nations mission after a series of confrontations in central and north-eastern parts of the country on Monday and Tuesday.

The violence, the worst for United Nations peacekeepers since 10 Belgians were killed in Rwanda in 1994, is by far the most serious breakdown of a chronically troubled peace agreement brokered last year by the United Nations between the government of Sierra Leone and the rebels.

The rebels' leader, Foday Sankoh, who became a government minister after the peace deal, has consistently refused to honor his promises to pacify his forces and allow United Nations peacekeepers to move freely in rebel territory.

Human rights groups have said that Mr. Sankoh does not want peacekeepers in rebel-controlled parts of eastern Sierra Leone because he fears they will interfere with a lucrative diamond smuggling operation he controls there. Diamond smuggling supported the rebels in their civil war and has reportedly made Mr. Sankoh very wealthy.

Peacekeeping troops responded to the rebel attack by surrounding Mr. Sankoh's house in the capital, Freetown, yesterday. A United States official in Freetown said by telephone that he had received a statement from Mr. Sankoh saying that if hostages were being held by the Revolutionary United Front they should be freed. Mr. Sankoh also called for talks and free movement about the country for United Nations forces.

A United Nations spokesman in New York said that the rebel leader's house was surrounded because "the U.N. wants to make sure it can remain in contact with Mr. Sankoh at this time of crisis."

"He hasn't formally been arrested for anything," said the spokesman, Farhan Haq. "However it would be dishonest to say he can just pack up and leave."

The United Nations Security Council demanded the release of the captured troops and said Mr. Sankoh should order his followers to stop the attacks.

The Clinton administration is "looking into the availability" of using C-140 cargo aircraft to fly Jordanian, Bangladeshi and Indian troops into Sierra Leone, a senior State Department official said. The officials said, however, that these troops were not yet ready to go.

In a statement in New York, the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, called the attacks "outrageous and criminal" and a "flagrant violation" of the July peace accord.

In Washington, an administration official said yesterday that the United States was looking at ways to see if Mr. Sankoh could be charged with war crimes. The peace deal Mr. Sankoh negotiated last year exempted him and his forces from prosecution for possible war crimes committed during the civil war. But the State Department has said it has credible information that atrocities have been committed by Mr. Sankoh's forces since the agreement was signed.

patches689:


Correlation =/= causation

The stated mission was:

A. Provide close protection for Bozize until locals could be trained to take over the role
B. Provide training/limited equipment for select units from the CAR military

This was later extended to:
C. Provide close protection for SANDF troops and equipment involved in missions A & B above

Anything else is just spectulation

Obostone:
our police are doing a good job in Somalia plus the military advisers.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6aqrevWDeU

frumentius:


You guys have immense fortitude trying to reason with someone having a periodic meltdown.

#AugustineLives!

Obostone:
our police are doing a good job in Somalia plus the military advisers.

Looking for Alshabaab hiding in the flooded swamps of Johwah in North West Mogadishu. UPDF of all seasons come rain or shine