Management … Africa

(BRUSSELS2) The newest European Union mission, EUTM Somalia, is worth a detour. It is the EU's first military cooperation action in the strict sense and aims to restore a failed state, Somalia, using a technique which seems to me to be more intelligent and much more economical in terms of resources (human and financial) than that used in Afghanistan. Above all, it aims to rebuild security forces for the Somali state.

Of course, all is not likely to be rosy. And disappointments are also likely to be there, as noted by a AP report recently about the Somali forces trained by Ugandans and Americans.

But it's the minimum to do if we want to keep a semblance of a state on this eastern shore of Africa, so strategic... It was therefore necessary for me to go there to see firsthand the arrival of the first Somali recruits to be trained by Europeans. I'll tell you when I get back. In the meantime... this blog will work in slow motion! But I have nevertheless planned some papers which will, I hope, be of interest to you...