Black Hawks Rising: Story of AMISOM’s Successful War against Somali Insurgents

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Black Hawks Rising:
The Story of AMISOM’s Successful War against
Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014
by
Apiyo Oloya
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Black Hawks Rising - the title of this book - acknowledges the formation and deployment of the
African Union Mission to Somalia
(AMISOM) in March 2007.
Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-making mission.
Many - including the author, who predicted the mission was DOA (Dead on Arrival) - gave the mission
little chance of success.
As a fighting force, however, AMISOM took on the Somali insurgents in 2010; expelled them from
Central Mogadishu on Saturday, 6 August 2011; and expanded control of territory under
the Somali Government in the succeeding years to most of Somalia.
The opening chapters of the book take the reader be hind the scenes to highlight the inconsistent
- and sometimes disastrous - US policy in the Horn of Africa generally, and in Somalia (specifically
dating back to the Kennedy administration in the early 1960s).
Under President George Bush, the US strongly and vigorously opposed deployment of
regional African troops in Somalia - instead sponsoring Somali factions to fight against each other
and, when that flopped, egged on Ethiopia to invade Somalia in December 2006, which caused
the rise of violent insurgency that spilled across borders.
Young jihadists streamed from the heart of USA to fight the invaders.
To clean up the mess, the Bush administration finally supported the deployment of regional troops.
Black Hawks Rising captures intimately the stories of the men and women who made up AMISOM:
their triumphs, setbacks and victories.
The spotlight focuses on the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), whose Herculean efforts
supported by Burundi National Defence Forces (BNDF) - and later the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF),
Forces Armées Djiboutiennes (FAD) , Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) and Republic of Sierra Leone
Armed Forces (RSLAF) - were pivotal to the success of the mission.
Their dedication, professionalism, ideological commitment, hard work and humanity turned Somalia from
a wasted nation to one with hope for peace, stability and a better future for the Somali people.
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Hard Cover
6 by 9 Inch Trim Size
256 pages
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