{"id":65984,"date":"2022-01-08T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/?p=65984"},"modified":"2022-01-08T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:04:25","slug":"british-consultancy-adam-smith-expected-in-hargeisa-to-advise-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/08\/british-consultancy-adam-smith-expected-in-hargeisa-to-advise-army\/","title":{"rendered":"British Consultancy Adam Smith Expected in Hargeisa to Advise Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somaliland\u2019s defence minister\u00a0Abdiqani Mohamoud Aateye<\/a>\u00a0and the head of the\u00a0Somaliland National Armed Forces<\/a>, General\u00a0Nuh Ismail Tani<\/a>, have contracted London-based consultancy firm\u00a0Adam Smith International<\/a>\u00a0(ASI) to help steer the reorganisation of the country\u2019s defence services, as laid out in the Somaliland Security Programme (SSP).<\/p>\n

The firm, whose contract runs to 2024, will shortly send one of its consultants to Hargeisa to oversee changes in the army\u2019s headquarters and support the training of troops participating in the Junior Command Staff Course (JCSC). The consultant will also act as a link between the ministry of defence and the British embassy in Hargeisa which is represented by diplomat\u00a0Morgan Riley<\/a>, and the defence attach\u00e9, Lieutenant Colonel\u00a0James Christie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0Jalpa Patel<\/a>, Adam Smith has experience in Somaliland, having previously managed security cooperation projects with the authorities there. Between 2013 and 2014, the consultancy\u00a0 provided support, on behalf of the UK government, to the high command and the coast guard, with a particular focus on a shake-up of the intelligence units. It has also collaborated with the\u00a0Somaliland Police Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Private security providers such as\u00a0Axiom International<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Aktis Strategy<\/a>\u00a0have also been sent by the UK to Somaliland to assist in the development of its military capabilities.<\/p>\n

Africa Intelligence<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somaliland\u2019s defence minister\u00a0Abdiqani Mohamoud Aateye\u00a0and the head of the\u00a0Somaliland National Armed Forces, General\u00a0Nuh Ismail Tani, have contracted London-based consultancy firm\u00a0Adam Smith International\u00a0(ASI) to help steer the reorganisation of the country\u2019s defence services, as laid out in the Somaliland Security Programme (SSP). The firm, whose contract runs to 2024, will shortly send one of its consultants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-english-news","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arabsiyonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Snapshot_851.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kp1p-hag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65987,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65984\/revisions\/65987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}