SOMALIA: More Ugandan soldiers deployed into Mogadishu to guard UN bases

    

The first part of Ugandan especial troops trained to guard United Nations offices in Somalia’s capital Mogadisgu, a town that is recovering from two decades of chaos and warlordism have landed in Adden Adde International Airport today.

 reports from the capital, 70 special trained Ugandan soldiers have arrived in Mogadishu as part of 400 Ugandan special troops that are scheduled to be deployed into Mogadishu in a bid of strengthening the security of United Nation bases in Mogadishu.

These special troops deployed into the capital of Somalia are expected to work under the mandate of African Union Mission in Somalia where the troops will be working in the United Nations bases in Mogadishu to cope up with the terror attack threats in the region.

Colonel Paddy Ankunda, one of the Ugandan troops spokesman told the press that the remaining number of the special Ugandan soldiers are going to be deployed soon

Recently deadly terror attacks had been plotted in the capital targeting United Nations compounds which motivated the deployment of the special Ugandan soldiers unit into Mogadishu.

SOMALIA: Puntland to tax UN and the other International organisations in the region

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 Garowe (Bile Blog)Tax department of the ministry of Finance of Puntland has announced to start the taxation of United Nations and the other international organization working in Puntland.

“We are in the middle of the process of taxing the International and United Naitons organizations in Puntland.” Said The head of Nugal Tax department of Punland’s finance ministry Abdiwahab Farah Ali speaking on a local media house.

Abdiwahab stated that the first time since Puntland was established, they will start taxing the relief and development organizations in the state in a bid of increasing revenue to finance the intended developments projects of the new government of Puntland led by President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas.

Within the move of the new government of Puntland of increasing tax revenue, the tax of commercial companies in the region had been increased so as to meet the expected finance of the development projects in Puntland.

Following his resumption of office in January this year, President Abdiweli vowed to increase taxation to increase government’s revenue to take Puntland forward.