African Union soldiers from Burundi stand to attention in Mogadishu on July 11, 2017. Amisom has been training and equipping the Somalia National Army (SNA) with the objective of gradually handing over security duties in liberated areas. PHOTO FILE | AFP
The 2021 Somalia elections could complicate plans by the African Union peacekeepers to withdraw its forces in the next two years.
Military experts say that the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) may have to revise its timetable because the next elections — when the country is expected to hold universal suffrage (the right to vote of all adults) after 52 years — is too important to be conducted without substantial security.
