Thursday, April 17, 2014

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

Ciidamada-Uganda    
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.

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