By invitation from the white house, president hassan is visiting washington next month to partake in the african leaders summit with the white house
7 african leaders have been excluded from this summit
Experts are saying that president hassan carries this time with him a huge agenda about the US somali relations and its support for the somali diplomatic sovereignty wich may stop many regional countries from involving in the somali political situation.
Not the same level bc these countries are vitally essential to the US interests but thanks to al shabaab and its associators the khawaja is now concentrating more and more on somalias national security
There are already US trained and funded somali special sorces like alpha/gaashaan wich falls under the national security and the newly formed DANAB commandos who fall uder the defense ministery(this one will be equiped in the future with helicopters, their HQ is balidoogle but there will be two branches in galkacyo and kismayo)
"Those U.S. plans include greater military engagement and new funds for training and assistance for the Somali National Army (SNA), after years of working with the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, which has about 22,000 troops in the country from Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Djibouti and Ethiopia.
"What you’ll see with this upcoming fiscal year is the beginning of engagement with the SNA proper," said a U.S. defense official, who declined to be identified. The next fiscal year starts in October.
An Obama administration official told Reuters there were currently up to 120 U.S. military personnel on the ground throughout Somalia and described them as trainers and advisors.
"They're not involved in combat," the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity, adding that until last year, U.S. military advisors had been working with AMISOM troop contributors, as opposed to Somali forces.
President Barack Obama last year determined that Somalia could receive U.S. military assistance."
