AU didn't approve Salim Saleh's militia

Going by the public outcry in July when Al Shabaab attacked two locations in Kampala killing at least 76 people, a terror threat is not something that Kampala wants to countenance, especially one that is seen to be self-inflicted by the shadowy activities of a senior government official.
Even with the explanation that Puntland has offered that the force being trained by Saracen is meant to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden, the contracting of this training has already raised controversy in the United States.

Michael Shanklin, a former CIA official, is named as having executed the contract but the funding has met with criticism in Washington for lacking transparency.

Somaliland, which declared independence from Somalia and has been largely peaceful since 1991 when the rest of Somalia started to fall apart, is citing Saracen’s activities as a threat to its own security and that of the entire Horn of Africa, given the “legal vacuum” in which the militia in Puntland are being trained.