An African Union mission in Somalia and a Security Council resolution that pays for it

Background

The joint communique of the United Nations Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council, published on 2 November after their meeting of 23 October 2026, sets out where the African Union mission in Somalia stands.
The mission is the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia, known by the short form AUSSOM.
The two councils welcomed the progress made against the armed group Al-Shabaab and paid tribute to the countries that contribute troops to the mission.
They stressed that the handover must be orderly and phased, with the Federal Government of Somalia taking responsibility for the country's security.
The financing of such missions is the harder question, and the councils said that any case-by-case authorisation under Security Council resolution 2719 should use a model that is adequate, predictable and sustainable.
Resolution 2719 is the framework under which United Nations assessed contributions may be used to support African Union-led peace support operations.
The same communique dealt with eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Sudan.
For South Sudan the councils affirmed the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict, the R-ARCSS, as the basis for the transitional government's legitimacy.