Marauding Saracen A Mercenary by Any Other Name

 

This paper discusses the recently promoted view that government counter-insurgence campaign should rather be conducted by self-interested quasi-mercenaries, instead of AMISOM forces. It is not entirely clear that the fez-wearing sheikhs have learned from the unfortunate Somali experiences. There are reports circulating in the Somali media that states Villa Somalia’s final decision to hire foreign security firm. The chitchats coming from the bunker walls of Villa Somalia are also rising loudly and are in favour of bringing quasi-mercenaries into Somalia, although Villa Somalia publicly denounces it.

Despite the almost universally unanimous distaste for quasi-mercenaries, the fez-wearing sheikhs who are now playing political midwife to Somalia assume that foreign private security actors are cheaper and more effective than UN or AMISOM forces. Read More