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have called for more military assets to be urgently delivered to
Mogadishu to help peg back Al Shabab.
The regional leaders signed the Djibouti Declaration yesterday and
called for international support in identifying and disabling funding to
Al Shabab and other terrorist groups. They said they need help to end
the recruitment and training of foreign fighters in Somalia.
AMISOM Heads of State Summit Contributing Countries summit in
Djibouti. AMISOM Photos
The summit identified the lack of a central command in Somalia as
a weakness that needs to be rectified and raised concern at a decision
by the EU to reduce financial support to AMISOM troop allowance by
20% especially during th is critical phase of AMISOM operations.
The summit requested the UN to expedite the finalisation of Letters of
Assist in order to allow for deployment to Mogadishu of pledged
helicopters from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to help boost the fight
against terror group Al Shabab.
Yesterday’s Summit was chaired by host Ismail Omar Guelleh,
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Kenya President
Uhuru Kenyatta, and Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
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