Building the Somali National Army: Anatomy of a failure, 2008–2018

Williams, Paul D.

doi:10.1080/01402390.2019.1575210

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“…Somalia is prone to recurrent humanitarian crises, including droughts, floods, and displacement. These crises require continuous humanitarian assistance and can divert resources and attention away from long-term development goals, affecting the overall cooperation efforts (Williams, 2020).…”

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The European Union (EU)-Somalia Cooperation: Areas, Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities

Jansky

2023

MJHIU

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This study focuses on the European Union (EU)-Somalia cooperation: areas, achievements, challenges and opportunities. The main aim of the stud is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the areas, achievements, challenges, and opportunities of the European Union-Somalia cooperation. The study employed qualitative research approach to gain clear understanding on the areas, achievements, challenges, and opportunities of the cooperation between European Union and Somalia. The researcher used an extensive documentary review tool to gather existing knowledge and insights on the European Union-Somalia cooperation. The researcher reviewed academic articles, reports, policy documents, and other relevant sources to understand the areas, achievements, challenges, and opportunities of the cooperation between European Union and Somalia. The findings of the study on areas of cooperation between European Union and Somalia which they entail: governance and institutional development, security and counterterrorism, development assistance, humanitarian aid, trade and investment, migration and displacement and regional integration; the achievements of cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Somalia entail: security and stability, humanitarian assistance, governance and state building, development resilience, political dialogue and reconciliation; the challenges hindering the effectiveness of the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Somalia encompass: security concerns, weak institutional capacity, political fragmentation, limited infrastructure and logistical challenges, corruption and lack of transparency and humanitarian crises and natural disasters; the opportunities of the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Somalia entail: economic development and trade, capacity building and knowledge transfer, infrastructure development, humanitarian aid and resilience-building, peacebuilding and conflict resolution and educational skills development. The study recommended that there should be more strengthening of political dialogue, increasing financial support, enhancing capacity building, fostering economic development, strengthening security cooperation and promoting inclusive governance to promote effectiveness of the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Somalia.

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Section: Humanitarian Crises and Natural Disastersmentioning

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The European Union (EU)-Somalia Cooperation: Areas, Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities

Jansky

2023

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“…Many other actors are involved in such military capacity building, such as British and EU trainers, as well as private security companies. Overall, however, the FGS has faced diffi culties in consolidating the Somali National Army (SNA) and integrating regional forces into its command structures (Williams 2019). The FGS still exerts limited authority beyond Mogadishu.…”

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“…An ambiguous Ethiopian withdrawal and propping up of an unpopular Transitional Federal Government gave Al Shabaab the opportunity for this expansion. However, by 2011, multilateral international support for anti-Islamist operations had ramped back up to the level that AMISOM-the African Union's now longest serving "peace support" operation (Williams 2018)-was able to expel Al Shabaab from Mogadishu. This set the scene for the installation of the Somali Federal Government and successive SNA/AMISOM taking of other southcentral cities and towns from the group.…”

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Cryptopolitics

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Rodima-Taylor

2023

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Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, “cryptopolitics,” are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media toconsider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age.

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“…The provision of external assistance to reinforce African security capabilities has warranted considerable scholarly interest over the years (e.g. Jowell 2018;Williams 2020;Tull 2019;Reno 2018;Neads 2019). Examples abound of initiatives led by outside partners aiming to support, resize, rebrand or re-create from scratch entirely new security apparatuses, often with mixed results.…”

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“…Tull 2019;Williams 2020). I focus instead on Southern Africa and specifically on Namibia and Mozambique, as a small n-selection, less studied in the literature but still attracting considerable public engagement by rising powers, in order to hypothesise on the overall performance of Brazil, China and India throughout the continent.…”

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Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa

Seabra

2021

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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What different solutions, if any, are provided? And how does their overall record fare against previous experiences across the continent? By exploring Brazilian and Chinese efforts in Namibia as well as Chinese and Indian overtures towards Mozambique, I argue that rising powers tend to be more invested in a long-term socializing agenda than in immediate capacitation results. This, in turn, justifies their inroads in sectorial niches, as gateways for durable outcomes over time.

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Building the Somali National Army: Anatomy of a failure, 2008–2018

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

The European Union (EU)-Somalia Cooperation: Areas, Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities

The European Union (EU)-Somalia Cooperation: Areas, Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities

Cryptopolitics

Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa

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