An handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on August 18, 2011 shows a Burundian soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia. A US-based military training organisation that has been quietly working in Somalia for the past three years is seen as a key factor behind the recent successes of African Union forces battling the al-Shabaab. AFP
A US-based military training organisation that has been quietly working in Somalia for the past three years is seen as a key factor behind the recent successes of African Union forces battling the al-Shabaab Islamist insurgency.
Bancroft Global Development, headquartered on Washington’s Embassy Row, employs about 40 South African and European trainers who work with the Ugandan and Burundian troops that comprise the AU military mission in Somalia (Amisom).
