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PAUL D. WILLIAMS
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Acknowledgements
This book has been nearly eleven years in the making and I have incurred many
debts of gratitude along the way. I am pleased to acknowledge them here.
First and foremost, this book would not have been possible without the
numerous individuals who took time out of their busy schedules to help me
understand different aspects of AMISOM’s activities and answer my many
questions. Some of them did this many times over and also subsequently spent
considerable additional time commenting on more of my draft publications
than I could reasonably expect. Many of them worked (or are still working) in
incredibly difficult jobs under testing and sometimes deadly circumstances
trying to build a more secure, democratic, and prosperous Somalia, whether as
citizens or journalists, in NGOs or in governments, or for international
organizations including the African Union (AU), United Nations (UN), and
European Union. Since most of them were serving officials, and as agreed at
the time, they will remain anonymous. But this book is far better than it would
have been without your constructive engagement and I am truly grateful.
I owe a particular debt of thanks to the African Union. This book could not
have been completed without the AU granting my request to meet its person-
nel and access documentation and other material. In places, my work is critical
of aspects of the AU’s policies, but I gratefully acknowledge the constructive
support that I received for more than a decade from numerous AU officials.
They have my respect and admiration.
While in Somalia, thanks are especially due to the AU–UN Information
Support Team for providing accommodation, flights, security, and facilitating
access for interviews. They too were always supportive of my research, even
when I criticized elements of their work. I also want to thank various Bancroft
Global Development personnel for their hospitality and taking the time to
discuss their operations in Somalia with me.
A special note of thanks is also due to Dr Timothy Rainey and the team at
the US Department of State’s Africa Contingency Operations Training
and Assistance (ACOTA) programme for granting me full access to their
unclassified documentation related to AMISOM. This was immensely helpful
in completing this book and shedding important light on the complex
challenges that ACOTA confronted and the important training and capacity-
building work that their personnel provided to AMISOM and its contributing
countries.
For financial assistance that facilitated my research and travel, I would once
again like to thank Michael Brown, the former Dean of the Elliott School of
International Affairs, for awarding me several SOAR grants. I am also grateful
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vi Acknowledgements
to the Elliott School for granting me sabbatical leave during academic year
2014–15. During that period I was awarded a fellowship to work on this book
at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I am very grateful
to the Wilson Center staff and especially the Africa Program team for pro-
viding such a welcoming and conducive setting for scholarship. Thanks are
also due to Katharina Krause and Dan Morgan-Russell, research assistants
that the Wilson Center arranged to help me during my fellowship. I also
received helpful research assistance from Elliott School student Jianyi Nie
during 2014.
Acknowledgement is also due to several journals and institutions that
published earlier versions of some of my arguments about AMISOM, includ-
ing ‘Into the Mogadishu Maelstrom: The African Union Mission in Somalia’,
International Peacekeeping, 16:4 (2009), pp. 514–30; ‘Fighting for Peace in
Somalia: AMISOM’s Seven Strategic Challenges’, Journal of International
Peacekeeping, 17:3–4 (2013), pp. 222–47; ‘The African Union Mission in
Somalia and Civilian Protection Challenges’, Stability: International Journal
of Security & Development, 2:2 (2013), p. 39. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/
sta.bz; ‘Stabilising Somalia: The African Union Mission and the Next Stage
in the War against Al-Shabaab’, RUSI Journal, 159:2 (2014), pp. 52–60;
B.E. Bruton and P.D. Williams, Counter-Insurgency in Somalia: Lessons
Learned from the African Union Mission in Somalia, 2007–2013 (Tampa, FL:
United States Joint Special Operations University, 2014); ‘After Westgate:
Challenges and opportunities in the war against al-Shabaab’, International
Affairs, 90:4 (2014), pp. 907–23; P.D. Williams with A. Hashi, Exit Strategy
Challenges for the AU Mission in Somalia (Mogadishu: Heritage Institute for
Policy Studies, February 2016); ‘AMISOM Under Review’, RUSI Journal, 161:1
(2016), pp. 40–9; W. Lotze and P.D. Williams, The Surge to Stabilize: Lessons
for the UN from the AU’s Experience in Somalia (New York: International
Peace Institute report, May 2016); The Battle at El Adde: The Kenya Defence
Forces, al-Shabaab, and Unanswered Questions (New York: International
Peace Institute, July 2016); UN Support to Regional Peace Operations: Lessons
from UNSOA (New York: International Peace Institute, February 2017);
‘Joining AMISOM: Why six African states contributed troops to the African
Union Mission in Somalia’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12:1 (2018),
pp. 172–92; ‘Strategic Communications for Peace Operations: The African
Union’s Information War against al-Shabaab’, Stability: Internatioanl Journal
of Security & Development, 7(1) (2018), p. 3. DOI http://doi.org/10.5334/
sta.606. and my chapter on AMISOM in J.M. Okeke and P.D. Williams
(eds.), Protecting Civilians in African Union Peace Support Operations: Key
Cases and Lessons Learned (South Africa: ACCORD, 2017). I owe an especially
large debt to my co-authors on some of these publications, namely, Arthur
Boutellis, Bronwyn Bruton, Katharina Coleman, Solomon Dersso, Abdirashid
Hashi, Walter Lotze, and Jide Okeke. I learned a great deal in the process and
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am grateful for their expertise and friendship. I also want to recognize other
friends and colleagues who have given up considerable amounts of their time
to help me complete this book, either through conversations or commenting
on draft papers. Thank you Alex Bellamy, Eric Berman, Cedric de Coning,
Jonathan Fisher, Linnéa Gelot, Marco Jowell, Robyn Kriel, Jair Van Der Lijn,
Ty McCormick, Frank Reidy, Colin Robinson, Timo Smit, Thierry Tardy, Tres
Thomas, and Nina Wilén. I am also grateful to Thong Nguyen of the Inter-
national Peace Institute for drawing several of the figures that appear in
this book.
My final debt of gratitude is to my family. Neither of my parents, Carole and
David Williams, lived to see this book’s completion, but I wouldn’t be where
I am today without the love and support they gave me. I miss you. Once again,
my incredible wife, Ariela Blätter, has enabled me to do what I do and I could
not do it without her. I love you. Finally, I want to thank my wonderful
daughter Zoë for bringing us such joy. This time around, aged four, she voiced
a clear opinion about my work. Flicking through a pile of books on my office
floor, she declared, ‘Daddy, your books are too serious and don’t have enough
pictures!’ You’re right Zoë, and soon I’ll explain why.
Of course, I alone am responsible for any remaining errors.
PDW
Washington DC
October 2017
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Contents
Introduction 1
PART I. HISTORY
1. Genesis: October 2004 to March 2007 21
2. Entry: March 2007 to January 2009 48
3. Stalemate: January 2009 to August 2010 77
4. Offensive: September 2010 to October 2011 101
5. Expansion: October 2011 to September 2012 126
6. Consolidation: September 2012 to December 2013 155
7. Surge: January 2014 to May 2017 178
Figures
I.1. AMISOM Authorized and Deployed Strength, 2007–17 3
I.2. AMISOM’s Organizational Structure, 2012 6
I.3. AMISOM’s Sector Boundaries: 2012 (left) and 2014 (right) 9
4.1. Mogadishu Incident Review (April 2010 to April 2011) 112
4.2. AMISOM and Urban Warfare 115
7.1. Major Al-Shabaab Attacks on AMISOM’s Forward Operating
Bases, 2015–17 196
7.2. Comparing AMISOM and SNA Sectors and Somalia’s Interim
Political Entities (2016) 205
8.1. UNSOA/S total budget requirements, UN fiscal years 2009/10–2017/18 216
8.2. Contributions to Trust Fund for AMISOM and the Somali National
Army (up to 2015) 223
13.1. Monthly Allowances for Uniformed Personnel in AMISOM
and UN Peacekeeping Operations, 2007–2017 (US$) 323
Tables
I.1. AMISOM TCCs army size, defence spending (US$), and contribution 3
4.1. AMISOM’s proposed force composition (2010) 103
4.2. IED incidents in Somalia, 2007–14 109
5.1. Al-Shabaab’s Dispersal of Forces, November 2011 151
6.1. AU and UN mandates for AMISOM compared (2013) 161
7.1. Operational challenges facing AMISOM, April 2015 187
8.1. Companies operating in AMISOM base camp, September 2012 217
8.2. Comparing UNSOA resources to select UN peacekeeping operations 222
8.3. Distances between Somali cities (kilometres) 228
9.1. Estimated size of the Somali Armed Forces, 1963–2017 242
9.2. Distribution of 10,900 SNA conducting joint operations with
AMISOM (2015) 245
12.1. AMISOM budget summary, 2011 and 2013–16 (US$) 314
13.1. Summary of potential modes of exit for peace operations 327
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10.1. Examples of AU and AMISOM measures to mitigate
civilian harm 275
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List of Abbreviations
List of Abbreviations xv
SEA Sexual exploitation and abuse
SNA Somali National Army
SNP Somali National Police
SNSF Somali National Security Forces
SPF Somali Police Force
SRCC Special Representative of the Chairperson of the AU Commission
SRSG Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General
SSR Security sector reform
TCC Troop-Contributing Country
TFG Transitional Federal Government
TFI Transitional Federal Institutions
TNG Transitional National Government
UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle
UPDF Uganda People’s Defence Force
UN United Nations
UNAMID African Union–United Nations Mission in Darfur
UNMAS UN Mine Action Service
UNMEE UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
UNMIS UN Mission in Sudan
UNMISS UN Mission in South Sudan
UNOCI UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire
UNPOS UN Political Office for Somalia
UNSOA UN Support Office for AMISOM
UNSOM UN Assistance Mission in Somalia
UNSOS UN Support Office in Somalia
USC United Somali Congress
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