Thread by @Independentmi20

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Dr. Hassan Khannenje of HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies a 🇬🇧 funded institute based in nairobi kenya wrote this laughable article in an attempt to discredit the somali security forces.

#somalia #mogadishu
theconversation.com/somalia-is-sti…

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Dr. Hassan Khannenje is a kenyan who is based in nairobi and works for a institute that is being funded by the kenyan govt, the national counter terrorism center kenya, the tony blair institute and IGAD. All of these donors have an interest in 🇸🇴 ’s security architecture.

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1st : So Dr. Khannenje works from a hostile country 🇰🇪

2nd : his institution is is connected to many people who have an interest in somalia’s security architecture.

3rd : he has absolute no knowledge on 🇸🇴 ’s affair nor does he have any experience in 🇸🇴 or speak somali.

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First of all hassan a bantu kenyan has no direct acces to any information on 🇸🇴 and doesn’t speak somali so all of his information is at minimum secondary and reading the article myself makes me question his epistemology on matters concerning somalia.

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Here is the article in question 👇 hassan starts in the typical sahan fashion and uses an outdated picture that illustrates a somewhat unprofessional and unorganized security force coupled with the headline somalia is still fragile what can amisom do to stabilise it.

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What our bantu brother is doing is basically begging the question he assumes the conclusion but doesn’t provide any evidences for it. The main argument dr kannanje and many other 🇬🇧 funded institutes use is the april clashes when some opposition member tried to stage unrest

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In this particular case only 150 somali national army soldiers deserted in an army of 30k many actual somalia analysts actually make the opposite claim that because of that incident the army has actually proved it isnt divided along clan lines and maintained professionalism

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Dr kannanje also tries to make the argument that amisom should be involved in political affairs and that a couple years will never be enough for amisom because the somali army is semi professional ill trained and lacks any tactical doctrine 👇👇

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He also suggests that handing responsibility over to the somali armed forces should happen and I quote ‘“carefully” and i am sure whatever carefully actually means is determined by the 🇬🇧 government !!

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There is a full assault on somalia’s security forces the groundwork is being laid !! How ?? false accusations and fake analysts reports and fake institutions reports !! @TheVillaSomalia must academically and scientifically counter this disinformation campaign.