The operation’s objectives include the establishment of a secure, temporary buffer zone approximately 100km deep inside Somalia; the removal of Al-Shabaab from the southern Somali ports, including Kismaayo, from which the group generates much of its revenue; and the establishment of inclusive “political and administrative arrangements in the liberated areas at the district and regional levels” in the Jubba Valley.[563]
The operation’s objectives include the establishment of a secure, temporary buffer zone approximately 100km deep inside Somalia; the removal of Al-Shabaab from the southern Somali ports, including Kismaayo, from which the group generates much of its revenue; and the establishment of inclusive “political and administrative arrangements in the liberated areas at the district and regional levels” in the Jubba Valley.[563]