Security Council Resolution 2809 (2025) [on Extension of the Authorization of the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (Aussom) Until 31 Dec. 2026]

S/RES/2809(2025)View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A document of the Security Council, under agenda item 84The situation in Somalia, published in 2025.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

3 entities

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What subjects does this mandate have?

8 topics

Counter-Terrorism Financing Internal Security Peacebuilding Peacekeeping Operations Somalia Somalia Situation Support Services

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2026.

2026S/2026/446Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to resolution 2809 (2025)

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What does this mandate say?

28 operative paragraphs

Somalia

Reaffirms its support for Somalia’s longstanding commitment to conduct one-person-one-vote elections, encourages Somalia to take progressive steps towards implementing electoral systems that enjoy broad political support through inclusive and transparent processes at the local, state and federal levels, within achievable timelines, and calls on the FGS and FMS to ensure any disputes are resolved peaceably so the electoral process can be implemented without further disruption to deliver free and fair elections;

Underscores the importance of progress on national priorities, including: the SSDP, the NSA, the National Development Plan, the Stabilisation Plan, reaching agreement on a federated police and justice system, fiscal federalism, power and resource-sharing, the constitutional review, and local and national reconciliation;

Encourages Somalia to maintain the momentum in its fight against Al-Shabaab, and welcomes the recent successful recovery operations by Somalia and its international partners, as reported by the Secretary-General (S/2025/613);

Underscores that the FGS has primary responsibility for protecting civilians in Somalia, and reaffirms the obligation to protect civilians in accordance with relevant provisions of international humanitarian law and international human rights law;

Encourages the FGS to share information about security operations with AUSSOM and UNSOS to enable early and effective planning for required support in line with their mandates, authorisations and the HRDDP, and further requests the FGS to include relevant information in the regular updates to the Security Council requested in paragraph 25 to this resolution;

Decides that the United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNTMIS) shall cease all operations on 31 October 2026 after completing the second phase of its transition, endorses the implementation of the proposed roadmap in the report of the Secretary-General of 30 September 2025 and calls upon the FGS and FMS to continue cooperating fully with the UN during this process;

Horn of Africa

Underscores that regional cooperation and collaboration, including with the African Union, will enhance the effectiveness of the response to transnational threats, including, armed conflict, terrorism and the specific threat posed by Al-Shabaab;

Urges the FGS to ensure coordination between AUSSOM and international security partners’ operations in Somalia to maximise coherence and effectiveness, and encourages Somalia’s partners to coordinate their support;

Condemns in the strongest terms the attacks by Al-Shabaab targeting security forces and AUSSOM personnel in Somalia and the wider region, and its terrorist attacks against government officials, civilians including humanitarian and medical personnel, and civilian infrastructure, as well as incidents of hostage-taking and kidnapping of civilians, and its recruitment, training and use of foreign terrorist fighters, and notes with concern that these attempts to undermine peace, security and stability in Somalia and the region pose a threat to regional integration and development and international peace and security, and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis;

Requests the FGS continue to strengthen cooperation and coordination with other Member States, particularly other Member States in the region, to prevent and counter the financing of terrorism, consistent with resolutions 1373 (2001), 2178 (2014), and 2462 (2019), and urges the African Union, United Nations, European Union and other Member States to work closely with Somalia to increase the delivery of non-military support to degrade Al-Shabaab, to prevent Al-Shabaab from conducting activities that harm the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and unity of Somalia and counter their terrorist activities, illicit finance, organised crime, access to and trafficking in arms and ammunition, including small arms and light weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and to work together with the international community to fully implement the measures set out in resolution 2806 (2025), and further urges the African Union, United Nations, European Union, Somalia and other Member States to similarly continue coordinating on degrading other terrorist groups;

AUSSOM

Recalls paragraph 16 of resolution 2767 (2024) and extends its authorisations until 31 December 2026, and reaffirms AUSSOM’s tasks, as set out in paragraph 17 of resolution 2767 (2024);

Authorises the Member States of the African Union to continue to deploy up to 11,826 uniformed personnel, inclusive of 680 police personnel, to AUSSOM until 31 December 2026;

Emphasises that additional support to AUSSOM and the Somali Security Forces is necessary to enable Somalia to bolster its fight against Al-Shabaab and improve peace and security in Somalia and the region, and urges traditional and new donors to support by providing the necessary funding to AUSSOM to enable the full implementation of its mandate;

Requests the United Nations and African Union, jointly with the FGS, and in consultation with Somalia’s security partners, to implement, within existing resources, a joint process for monitoring of progress made in implementing the AUSSOM Concept of Operations (CONOPs), to support the production of future benchmarks reports and further requests the Secretary-General to continue to work closely with the African Union in supporting the implementation of this resolution, including through providing technical and expert advice on the planning, deployment and strategic management of AUSSOM in line with the mandate of the United Nations office to the African Union;

Underlines the importance of AUSSOM cooperating with the United Nations in implementing the HRDDP, including in the context of joint or coordinated operations with the SNA and SNPF, and stresses the role that the AUCF and its further operationalisation in AUSSOM plays in enhancing compliance with international human rights law and international humanitarian law through comprehensive preventive, responsive and remedial tools and mechanisms;

Requests AUSSOM to support the implementation of the Joint Communique and National Action Plan to prevent and respond to sexual violence in conflict, and to take into account these specific concerns throughout the activities of all AUSSOM components, and to ensure that risks of sexual violence in conflict are included in data collection, threat analysis and early warning systems, reaffirms the importance of ensuring the implementation of and adherence to the African Union Policy on Prevention and Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse for Peace Support Operations, stresses the need to prevent such exploitation and abuse, requests the African Union and troop- and police-contributing countries, and the United Nations where applicable, to screen personnel, undertake risk assessments, deliver all relevant training to personnel, protect and support the relief and recovery of victims and survivors who report abuse, carry out timely investigations into allegations, hold perpetrators accountable, and repatriate units where there is credible evidence of widespread or systemic sexual exploitation or abuse by members of those units, and further requests the African Union and the United Nations to work closely in this regard;

Encourages efforts to ensure female uniformed personnel are deployed to AUSSOM by the troop- and police-contributing countries, and urges AUSSOM to ensure the full, effective and meaningful participation of women across its operations and to integrate a gender perspective throughout the delivery of its mandate;

United Nations logistical support

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide, in accordance with the existing assessed financial and administrative arrangements, a logistical support package, and, in consultation with the African Union and the FGS, to update the logistical support plan as appropriate, in full compliance with the HRDDP, through UNSOS for:

a. UNTMIS, until 31 October 2026, on a cost-recovery basis;

b. AUSSOM uniformed personnel in line with paragraph 12 of this resolution, and on the basis set out in paragraph 2 of resolution 2245 (2015); and,

c. up to 85 AUSSOM civilians, to support AUSSOM’s military and police tasks and enhance coordination between the United Nations, African Union and Somalia;

Recalls paragraph 2 of resolution 2245 (2015), decides to continue the provision outlined in subparagraphs (f) and (g) to cover up to 20,900 personnel from the SNA or SNPF on joint or coordinated operations with AUSSOM until 31 December 2026 in full compliance with the HRDDP, and encourages traditional and new donors to support the UNSOS administered Trust Fund in support of the Somali security forces;

Recalls paragraph 29 of resolution 2687 (2023) and requests the United Nations, in full consultation with the FGS, to continue to support Somalia in planning for and developing its sovereign capacity in logistical support, further recalls paragraph 34 of resolution 2767 (2024) and requests the Secretary-General to continue United Nations support to Somalia on countering the threat of IEDs;

Evaluation and reporting

Welcomes the African Union’s updates to date on the implementation of AUSSOM’s mandate, and requests continued regular updates to the Security Council, including at its meetings on AUSSOM, on:

a. progress on joint operations, including strengthening of coordination mechanisms with the FGS;

b. progress against AUSSOM’s mandate;

c. accountability measures taken, including to address violations and abuses of human rights, violations of international humanitarian law, and violations of standards of conduct and discipline; and,

d. measures taken to protect civilians;

Notes with appreciation the plan, set out in the African Union Peace and Security Council’s communique of 3 July 2025, to transmit to the Security Council the revised requirements for AUSSOM with regards to its configuration, recalls paragraph 45 of resolution 2767 (2024), which requested a plan for further reductions in the size of AUSSOM’s deployed force, and strongly encourages the African Union, jointly with the FGS, to transmit to the Security Council, by 30 April 2026, these updated plans for AUSSOM’s configuration and the size of its deployed force, covering the remaining phases of its deployment, taking into account the funding situation and prioritising sustaining AUSSOM’s capacity to help consolidate the peace and security gains made so far in Somalia;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council, by 31 May 2026, on:

a. in light of the measures implemented so far to manage UNSOS’s liquidity shortfall and the updates pursuant to paragraph 22 of this resolution, recommendations for appropriate adaptations to the support provided by UNSOS to AUSSOM, prioritising sustaining AUSSOM’s capacity to help consolidate the peace and security gains made so far in Somalia across phases 2, 3 and 4 of the CONOPs;

b. in coordination with the African Union and in consultation with donors, an update on the status of voluntary resource mobilisation towards AUSSOM’s 2025 budget, as well as plans and expectations for resource mobilisation to support the 2026 budget and future phases of AUSSOM’s deployment to Somalia; and,

c. relevant aspects of the implementation of this resolution, including the provision of the UN logistical support package;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council, by 31 October 2026, on:

a. financial and operational developments, as well as those relating to coordination, stability and security, which may impact Council decision-making on AUSSOM and the implementation of AUSSOM’s mandate; and,

b. relevant aspects of the implementation of this resolution, including the provision of the UN logistical support package;

Requests Somalia to keep the Security Council informed on progress in implementing the SSDP and NSA, force generation and integration, and security operations with AUSSOM and UNSOS;

Expresses its intention, following receipt of the report requested in paragraph 23 of this resolution, and before 30 June 2026, to adapt the support provided to AUSSOM to prioritise sustaining AUSSOM’s capacity to help consolidate the peace and security gains made so far in Somalia;

Requests the United Nations, jointly with the African Union and FGS, and in consultation with donors, to continue undertaking regular, joint technical assessments of progress made, including against the benchmarks detailed in the Joint Report, and to provide an assessment of progress to the Security Council by 31 October 2026;

Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.

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