Thank Kenya for providing lessons. Clever West Africans have noted and said 'thanks but no thanks' to power sharing.

@Sparkly, good lessons indeed. Kenya remains just a loud mouthed country with few deeds. Our military could not salvage the motherland at that hour of need 2007/08 let alone salvage naughty neighbouring Somalia. We don't have the numbers first, ours is a skeleton army, just for the show. Then our political/strategic interests are in conflict with a peaceful Somalia (sic) so the policy is hazy.

We are so scared of reprisals from Al shabaab, because we care more about foreign investors/interests being threatened than our our own long term interests. The proposal to have a standby EA Community brigade was put on ice esp by Kenya.

@Rahatupu, the AU has a rule discouraging frontline states from participating in missions

@Njore, do you work for AU??