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#PRIORITY Row in Munyonyo - How HSM Threw Tantrums at Kampala Summit Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud openly clashed with his Ugandan hosts yesterday at the closure of the summit of African troop and police contributing states (TPCCs) at Munyonyo. HSM was incensed by a few innocuous phrases in the final communique that underscored desirability of "inclusive political dialogue" in Somalia. The Somali leader demanded the passage expunged arguing that Somalia's politics was its own domestic affair and beyond the remit of the African TPCCs and that AUSSOM should confine itself to security matters. The tantrum worked. The passage was rewritten and 'offending' political messaging removed. So what have we learnt? 1. HSM knows how to get what he wants by sheer blackmail. Throw a few tantrums and the weak-kneed African neighbours will back down. He was right. That's what they did. 2. Delinking Somali politics from security is a sheer absurdity and everyone knows it. Clausewitz's dictum on military campaigns as quintessentially designed to serve a political end and purpose is lost on HSM but should it be lost too to AUSSOM and Ugandan generals? AUSSOM's role is not robotic kinetic action against jihadists but creating the political space for Somalis to reconcile, unite, construct a viable state and healthy progressive politics. Endemic political dysfunction, state contraction and fragmentation raises fundamental question about what end AUSSOM serves. 3. "Somalia is a sovereign state and must be left to determine its own course" is a popular phrase loved by Somali hypernationalists but highly dubious in Somalia's current context. Somalia is still a fragile state, unable to exercise full functional sovereignty. That is why African troops are battling Al-Shabaab - to secure Somalia's sovereignty. To insinuate or suggest that African states who sent troops, lost blood and treasure to liberate Somalia are encroaching on Somalia's sovereignty by simply demanding inclusive political dialogue, is probably the height of ingratitude. Real sovereignty as I have always said is earned not demanded. True sovereignty is not shouted at conferences; it is painstakingly negotiated and flourishes through consent and national consensus. 4. If East Africa cannot call Somalia to order; cannot offer honest opinion and advice; cannot correct its wayward leadership - of what use then is the military campaign? We might as well end the mission and leave Somalia to its own 'sovereign' devices... (Here is the full clip of the altercation between HSM and his Ugandan host)
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