Kampala twin attacks expose US uncertainty over Somalia

Increasing US aid to the TFG would amount to “rewarding incompetence,” Ms Bruton said.

The Kampala attacks should be taken as a warning of the futility of escalating Amisom’s involvement in Somalia, she added.

Al Shabaab’s killing of World Cup fans in the Ugandan capital was meant as “direct retaliation for the plan to increase the number of peacekeepers on the ground in Somalia,” Ms Bruton said.