The peacekeepers have “performed better than anyone would have dreamed,MBTメンズ,” said J. Peter Pham,sconto mbt scarpe, director of the Africa program at the Atlantic Council, a Washington research institution.

Their surprising success has put the African Union in the driver’s seat of an intensifying international effort to wipe out Somalia’s Shabab militants,MBT シューズ, once and for all. Kenya, Ethiopia, the United States, France, Djibouti, Burundi and Uganda have all jumped in to some degree against the Shabab, a brutal and wily insurgent group that is considered both a regional menace and an international threat,doudoune moncler homme, with possible sleeper cells embedded in Somali communities in the United States and Europe.