March 3rd, 2011 
davidguide 
Nairobi, Kenya (AHN) – As Somalia’s government kicked off new military actions against extremists of al Shabaab, the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) on Wednesday graduated police officers in a training initiative as part of continued support to the transitional federal government (TFG).
In a statement, the AU said 194 lower and junior level management officers of the Somali Police Force graduated after undergoing “refresher” training by AMISOM at the Kenya Wildlife Training School.
AMISOM instructors had led a three-month training course that began on Dec. 9, according to the statement.
The AU is mandated to support the transitional federal government of Somalia through capacity building. The AMISOM training was designed to help Somali police officers acquire competency levels that meet internationally accepted democratic policing standards.
The development comes as al Shabaab on Sunday sent a strong warning message to neighboring Kenya.
The group accused Kenya of training and coordinating forces to open a new battle front in the southern regions, adding that insurgents would no longer tolerate what he called Kenya’s provocative and aggressive acts against them.
“Many times, it is reiterated that Kenya has been threatened. Al Shabaab is saying definitely that it will never condone Kenyan intervention in what is going on inside Somalia,” Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage, spokesman for the hard-line group, told reporters in Mogadishu.
The program was funded in part by the Italian government.
View full post on Education Stories
Posted in 
Tags: 
