The Security Council yesterday extended for another year the mandate of the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, as it continues to consider a revised United Nations presence there, and partially lifted the 20-year-old arms embargo imposed on the country.
Created and operated by the African Union in January 2007, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) received a UN mandate from the Security Council the following month, and has been renewed ever since. It is mandated to
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