The EU is also committed to remaining an important partner of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and supports its current reconfiguration to align with the Somali Transition Plan. The EU is one of AMISOM’s main financial contributors, having committed more than €1.73 billion for AMISOM from March 2007 to December 2018.
Over the past ten years, AMISOM enabled Somalia’s considerable peacebuilding and state-building progress and it will continue to play an important role throughout the transition process, which should lead to the gradual hand-over of security responsibilities to the Somali security institutions, as laid down in the Transition Plan.