Brussels– A donor summit in this capital today called on Somalia”s government to speed up the reactivation of its army, through the observance of previous reports by the UN and the African Union .
The Horn of Africa’s country should accelerate the agreed reforms on that force, which reveals a slow progress in its transformation, adds a statement of the main foreign sponsors of Mogadishu.
The donors urged to turn the currently inefficient Somali National Army . into a force capable of confronting the militias of al Shabab, an Islamist group linked to al Qaeda and considered terrorist by the government and the international community.
The document described the local soldiers as a ‘fragile force with extremely weak command and control’, much more so considering the plans of international organizations to replace the current contingent in the country in the medium term.
The local armed forces have the obligation to replace the African Union Mission in this nation, which since last year has been decreasing its forces to leave the country in 2020.
International donors said that the SNA should improve drastically in a short period of time, because it is falling further and further in the same deficient aspects identified after achieving a consensus last year.
That internal military force must also create biometric registration and electronic payroll systems to curb corruption, experts said.
The International Monetary Fund pressures Mogadishu to better manage public finances and assured that the local government implements reforms under a program agreed upon and supervised by personnel of that body.