Jendayi E. Frazer, former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under the Bush Administration said President Barack Obama is still applying the same policy of his predecessor.
“There’s not much variation in policy at all, it is the same,” says Jendayi Frazer, who is now a scholar at Carnegie-Mellon University in the state of Pennsylvania,
She said she does not anticipate any changes to be brought by the planed Transitional Federal Government of Somalia’s offensive to flush out Al-shabaab and Hizbul Islam insurgent groups from the capital city Mogadishu and southern port of Kismayu. “I don’t think if the TFG offensives against Islamists in Mogadishu and Kismayo would change anything from the hard situation in Somalia, I believe it would further worsen,” she said.
The former US envoy says the situation in Somalia could only be improved if the capacity African Union peacekeeping mission that has some 5,100 peacekeeping troops is increased and improved.
Somalia has been without an effect central government since 1991 when Mogadishu warlords topple the regime of former President Mohammed Siad Bare.
Source: Africa World News
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