Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) has finally drawn plans detailing how it intends to end its eight-year stay in Somalia.
Kenya, which together with other countries has contributed troops to African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), is to exit the Horn of Africa nation by 2021.
AMISOM’s mandate in Somalia ends in 2021.
Kenya’s plans are detailed in a book launched by Gen. Samson Mwathethe, the retiring immediate former Chief of Defense Forces.
The book is titled War for Peace: Kenya’s Military in the African Mission in Somalia, 2011-2020 highlights the first pillar as creation of the right conditions for exiting Somalia.
Under the first pillar, KDF is to help reform the Somali National Army (SNA) while empowering security forces in the country to undertake operations that boost sustainable peace.
It also mentions the creation of a Jubaland that is not only stable, but also peaceful, prosperous and a state free of Al-Shabaab extremists as the second pillar.
Further, the book also goes into great detail explaining other pillars that would guide KDF’s planned withdrawal from Somalia by next year.