Maraykanku waxay kordhinayaan ka qaybgalka millatari ee Afrika si ay u xakamayso dawladaha qaaradda oo ay ku xakameynayaan khayraadkooda iyo dekaddaha istaraatiijiga ah, oo ah cilmi baarayaal Maraykan ah qeyb ka yihiin.
wasaarada difaca mareykanka Pentagon ayaa shaaca ka qaaday Khamiistii in Maraykanku hadda haysto 500 oo askari oo ku sugan saldhigyo ku yaala gudaha Soomaaliya xitaa iyada oo ay beeninayso “dhisidda” ciidammada waddanka.
Pentagon waxaa kale oo ay xaqiijisay in Ciidamada ugandha ee ku sugan gudaha dalka somaliya ay siisay ilaa 5 diraaradood oo ah nooca aan duuliyaha laheyn iyo sidoo kale laba helikabta oo ah kuwa dagaalka
diyaaradaan cusub ayaa la sheegay in dhawaan loo so daabulay dalka sii holcaya ee Somalia
si loo gaarsiiyo ciidamada ugandha ee qeybta ka ah kuwa midowga Afrca ee AMISOM talsika mareykanka oo dacad u Noqday qalabeynta cid kasta oo sheegata in ay la dagaalameyso alshabaab ayaa cidianka ugaandha ugu daray gaadiid gaashan iyo qaalab kale oo Milatari oo looga gaashaanto qaraxyada iyo miinooyinka ay heystaa Alshabaab wadooyinka dhinacyadooda lagu aaso
Taliska AMISOM ayaa sidoo kale sheegtay in 28-ka mid ah diyaaradaha Mareykanka ee ka howlgala Soomaaliya ay ka mid yihiin diyaaradaha aan duuliyaha laheyn ee Al-Shabaab iyo Al-Qaacida lagu abrtilmaameydsanayo .
“Soomaaliya waa goob muhiim u ah ganacsiyada Maraykanka iyo sidoo kale habab looga hortagayo kuwa ka soo horjeeda dawlad-goboleedyada,” Randy Short ayaa ku sheegay war-saxaafadeedka Jimcihii.
“Soomaaliya waxay ku tiirsan tahay saliida, dahabka, waxay dekedaheeda ka heshay Badda Cas iyo Badweynta Hindiya,” ayuu yiri Gaaban.
“Xasilooni daro kasta oo Soomaaliya ka jirta waa mid ka mid ah Dalalka Midowga ‘,” ayuu yiri. “Maraykanku waxa uu ku xad-gudbay Soomaaliya tan iyo soddon sano.ee la soo dhaafay ”
The US is increasing its military involvement in Africa to destabilize the continent’s governments and gain control over their resources and strategic ports, an African American researcher in Washington says.
The Pentagon revealed on Thursday that the United States now has some 500 troops on the ground in Somalia even as it denies a “build-up” of forces in the African country.
US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has also said that there have been 28 US airstrikes in Somalia this year, mostly from drones and against purported al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants.
“Somalia is a very important area for both American businesses as well as a means to counter-balance against its regional adversaries,” Randy Short told Press TV on Friday.
“In the case of Somalia, Somalia is rich in oil, gold and it has got its ports in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean,” Short said.
“Any instability in Somalia is Unites States’ fault,” he said. “The United States has been tampering with Somalia for the better part of thirty five years.”
Washington: The US military has quietly upped the tempo of its operations in Somalia, conducting a growing number of drone strikes against Al Qaeda affiliated Shabaab militants and other jihadists.
Since the start of the year, America has carried out 28 drone strikes in the Horn of Africa nation, with 15 of these coming since September 1, the military’s Africa Command (AFRICOM) said.
That’s a big increase from last year. According to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which maintains a tally of US operations in Somalia and elsewhere, there were 15 anti-Shabaab air strikes in the whole of 2016.
The surge in activity comes as the US watches for an influx of fighters from the Islamic State group, which has lost almost all its territory in Iraq and Syria.
The US conducted a pair of drone strikes against IS in Somalia on November 3, the first time it has hit the jihadists there.
Though the Pentagon has provided few details about the strikes, spokesman Colonel Rob Manning said this week that US forces had killed 40 Shabaab and IS fighters in a series of five strikes on Somalia between November 9 and 12.
On Wednesday, AFRICOM announced a sixth strike that killed “several” Shabaab militants 60 miles (97 kilometres) northwest of the capital, Mogadishu.
The surge in activity comes after President Donald Trump in March loosened constraints on the US military in Somalia, allowing commanders to take action against suspected terrorists when they judge it is needed, without seeking specific White House approval.
The US is supporting the country’s fight against Shabaab, which has carried out a string of devastating bombings in Mogadishu and elsewhere.
In May, officials said only about 50 US troops were in Somalia providing training and advice for the Somali military and logistical support, but on Thursday the Pentagon said the figure is now at about 500.
Pentagon spokesman and Joint Staff Director Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie told reporters on Thursday that he didn’t necessarily think there was a ramping-up of operations, but said the “density of targets” meant more strikes had been possible.
“There’s no particular rhythm to it, except that as (targets) become available and as we’re able to process them and vet them, we strike,” he said.
McKenzie added that officials keep a close eye on foreign fighters’ movements from Iraq and Syria, but he would not say if the Pentagon was tracking jihadists flowing from their former “caliphate” through Yemen and onto Somalia.
Aside from US forces training and advising Somalia’s young military, about 22,000 African Union troops are helping secure outlying urban areas.
AMISOM, the AU’s mission in Somalia, has said it will withdraw 1,000 troops fighting jihadists in the country this year, as part of plans to pull out all soldiers by December 2020.
Washington is worried the reduction will hamper efforts against Shabaab.
Deputy Secretary of Defence Pat Shanahan met with Ugandan Minister of Defence Adolf Mwesige in Vancouver, Canada on the margins of a UN peacekeeping summit this week.
Uganda is the main contributor to AMISOM and has been there for a decade.
Shanahan “acknowledged those Ugandan lives lost in Somalia. He expressed his understanding of the frustration with the pace of progress in Somalia but also his confidence that progress is being made,” Shanahan’s spokeswoman Commander Sarah Higgins said.
For Jennifer Cooke, an Africa specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, this “militarisation” of US policy in Somalia is concerning.
“The raining down of strikes from the sky can give major fuel to recruitment by (jihadist) groups,” she told AFP.
Cooke worried that increasing military intervention is not being matched by diplomatic efforts in Somalia as the US State Department’s budget is cut.
“You don’t have the counter-balance of a diplomatic strategy to go with that expanding military footprint,” she said, also adding that rising civilian casualties were a real risk.
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