Counter-Insurgency Operations of the African Union and Mitigation of Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia

Ononogbu Olihe Adaeze and Nwangwu Chikodiri
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Ononogbu Olihe Adaeze: Ph.D Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Nwangwu Chikodiri: Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2018, vol. 9, issue 2, 117-129

Abstract: The protracted armed conflict in Somalia has engendered an unprecedented humanitarian crisis; one that makes it a leading storehouse of the worst humanitarian conditions in the world. The intervention of the African Union (AU) through its third Peace Support Operation- the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)- was aimed at supporting the Transitional Federal Institutions in the stabilisation of the country, advancing dialogue and reconciliation as well as facilitating the provision of humanitarian support. The achievement of the humanitarian component of the mission’s mandate is largely contingent on the first two mandates. Essentially, this study interrogated the interface between the implementation of the humanitarian component of AMISOM mandate and the control of the worsening conditions of Somali internally displaced persons and refugees. Anchoring analysis within the classical approach to national security, the study found that the restoration of relative stability in the polity has not widened access to economic and humanitarian assistance in the terror-laden state of Somalia. Thus, greater commitment of major stakeholders, especially the United Nations (UN), the United States as well as the AU is required in the transmutation of AMISOM and Somalia National Armed Forces into a force that is entirely indigenous to the people of Somalia. This will serve as an elixir to the ever-constricting humanitarian corridor that has exacerbated the conditions of the victims of forced migration in Somalia.

Keywords: Somalia; al-Shabaab; sustainable counter-insurgency; humanitarian crisis; African Union; AMISOM mandate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.2478/mjss-2018-0032

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