Black Hawks Rising - Oloya Opiyo
Black Hawks Rising - Oloya Opiyo "Black Hawks Rising" tells the story of the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Many - including the author, who…
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Black Hawks Rising - Oloya Opiyo
"Black Hawks Rising" tells the story of the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Many - including the author, who predicted the mission was DOA (Dead on Arrival) - gave the mission little chance of success. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-making mission.
The opening chapters of the book take the reader behind the scenes to highlight the inconsistent - and sometimes disastrous - US policy in the Horn of Africa generally, and in Somalia (specifically dating back to the Kennedy administration in the early 1960s). As a fighting force, however, AMISOM took on the Somali insurgents in 2010; expelled them from Central Mogadishu on Saturday, 6 August 2011; and expanded control of territory under the Somali Government in the succeeding years to most of Somalia. Under President George