1/ The AU PSC is mad at the UN🇺🇳 for conducting an independent review of security options for stabilizing #Somalia🇸🇴 which made recommendations for reconfiguring #AMISOMpeaceau.org/en/article/com…
3/ Meanwhile, neither the UNSC nor the AU PSC really control what #AMISOM’s key TCCs do in the field... And it’s not a good sign if they can’t even agree on how to do an independent assessment of the situation... 🙁
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1/ It's fair to say @UNPeacekeeping🇺🇳 is currently in a financial crisis caused largely but not solely by the 🇺🇸 Trump administration. Here's a thread explaining the state of play undocs.org/a/73/809
2/ First a caveat: the numbers fluctuate regularly so what follows are just snapshots. @UNPeacekeeping & its troop- & police-contributing countries (T/PCCs) are reimbursed after the fact. Here's an explainer of how it works via @ipinstGOtheglobalobservatory.org/2018/10/in-us-…
3/ When UN Member States don't pay their @UNPeacekeeping dues in full and on-time it hurts 1) T/PCCs; 2) mission effectiveness in the field; and 3) the reputation of the UN's🇺🇳 general effective system for financing #PeaceOperations.
3/ For information-environment context, photos of the damage caused by the mortar attack was already circulating on Twitter when @amisomsomalia posted its Tweet. Here’s an example: