{"id":416499,"date":"2023-05-04T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=416499"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:26:00","slug":"planning-underway-for-first-atmis-troop-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/planning-underway-for-first-atmis-troop-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning underway for first ATMIS troop withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Plans to ensure the first phase of troop drawdown by ATMIS (African Union Transition Mission in Somalia) does not \u201cnegate\u201d security gains made to date are underway by the mission\u2019s six troop contributing countries (TCCs).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\">\n<div id=\"hiiraan_incontent_3\" align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__300x250 __336x280\" data-google-query-id=\"CLPomKqQ2_4CFZGw1QodPrELVg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/15184186,30263211\/hiiraan_incontent_3_0__container__\">\n<div class=\"__fs-ancillary\">\n<div class=\"__fs-branding\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senior representatives of the six countries met in Kampala late last month where Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister Odongo Abubakhar told those present it was critical to plan for \u201ca successful exit of AU (African Union) troops\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Other countries at the meeting were Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said further, according to an ATMIS statement, it is \u201cprudent to effect joint assessment of the security situation, planning and co-ordination as TCCs to execute draw down timelines and for the government of Somalia to ensure force generation and integration to assume security responsibilities\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Head of the EU (European Union) delegation to Uganda Jan Sadek said developing capability of the Somali Security Forces was critical to ensuring the long term security of Somalia and the region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cStrengthening the capacity of the Somali Security Forces and governance actors to take over responsibility for protecting the people must remain a key objective of all Somalia\u2019s partners. The only exit strategy for ATMIS is thus to support the Somali security sector,\u201d Sadek is reported as saying.<\/div>\n<p>Source: The Defensceweb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to ensure the first phase of troop drawdown by ATMIS (African Union Transition Mission in Somalia) does not \u201cnegate\u201d security gains made to date are underway by the mission\u2019s six troop contributing countries (TCCs). Senior representatives of the six countries met in Kampala late last month where Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister Odongo Abubakhar told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":415568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416500,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416499\/revisions\/416500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}