A seventeen-year-old operation which has not achieved its goal can only be considered a total failure, which by all standards and common sense, must be discontinued, unless the original goal was not as defined as it is and it is doing a project that is hidden and covert, and it looks likely this is probably the case. It is being renewed under a different name, the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). It is clear that it will not stabilize nor support Somalia but would be doing some other undisclosed mandate. This is the AMISOM project – an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, renamed some two years ago as the African Transition Mission in Somalia and whose mandate is ending on December 31st, 2024. It is the same mission under a different cover.

All missions have been authorized by the United Nations Security Council, under again, different UN names. It started as UNSOA in 2009, standing for the United nations Organization Office for AMISOM and was established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1863 (2009) to provide logistics support to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which was changed to UNSOS or the United nations Support office for Somalia, following the adoption of resolution 2628 (2022) on 31 March 2022, which brought in ATMIS in the place of AMISOM.

Somalia can only be supported and stabilized by its own people and citizens but this will happen only when the malignant interventions of other countries stop, and when the Somali citizen realizes that it is time to reconcile and close the old painful pages and move on. Civil wars happen and happened in many countries. They are still happening in other countries at the time of this writing. Neighboring Ethiopia is but a great example. It appears to be going the way of Somalia over the next several decades, anyway.

The current mandate of UNSOS as elaborated in the Security Council resolution 2748 (2024), will only add to the continuation of the miseries of the Somali people, whose politicians all vie to be the receiving party of the aid coming from other nations, the main culprit at the center of the problems of Somalia – the aid and grants from donor countries. Many of the local politicians have stopped working for the nation long ago and vie and compete for being the Somali parties receiving the assistance on behalf of the Somali people and pocketing it along with the UN and AU missions........

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