From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Apr 12 2010 - 13:12:11 EDT
No change on Obama's policy towards Somalia says Former envoy
12 Apr, 2010 - 2:36:27 PM
Former US president's George Bush's top advisor says no different between
the approach of current Obama administration to war-torn Somalia and his
predecessor.
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.
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