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2023-03-19 Africa Horn
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Somalia army chief concludes trip to KDF facilities in Kenya
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[Garowe] The Chief of Defense Forces of Somalia National Army [SNA] General Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has concluded his two-day working trip to Kenya where he visited various Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] facilities across the East Africa nation, terming the visit as "very informative and necessary for defense cooperation".
After being hosted by his Kenyan counterpart General Robert Kibochi, Rageh, 36, the youngest head of the military within the region, paid homage to the KDF School of Infantry in Isiolo. The Infantry battalion is known for defending the nation by directly fighting the enemy on the battlefield in combat.
On his second day, General Rageh toured the Kenya Military Academy in Nakuru which trains Cadets where he was ushered in by Commandant Major General Fatuma Ahmed. The Commander and his entourage were later flown to Embakasi in Nairobi, where he visited both the Humanitarian Peace Support Training Centre [HPSS] and the Defence Forces Technical Training College [DEFTEC].
During the trip, KDF said in a statement, General Odawaa and his delegation were taken through elaborate briefs covering the institutions’ respective mandates and an extensive tour of the training facilities and programs with a scope spanning from foundational to advanced military training and education vital in shaping the modern-day soldier.
On his part, Brigadier General Odowaa said Somalia picks lessons from Kenya as it walks through the difficult journey of meeting demands to face contemporary security threats. His trip comes days after frontline nations led by Kenya, Æthiopia, and Djibouti promised to deploy more soldiers to Somalia in the wake of heightened campaigns against al-Shabaab
 ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
Already, Æthiopia has dispatched troops who will be joining their counterparts serving in the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS]. It is anticipated that once the three countries deploy non-ATMIS troops, the number would rise from the current 22,000 to about 25,000 but the number might reduce after 2024, the year when ATMIS is supposed to leave Somalia.
He further commended the institutions he had visited as ideal model training centers that meet the demands of the trainees to face contemporary security threats. The visit comes in the wake of the onset of a gradual drawdown of troops serving under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and the subsequent reconfiguration and training of Somalia Security Forces to take over the security mandate and responsibility from ATMIS Forces.
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