Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 17:19:43 +0200
Uganda accused of training Somali fighters
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Wednesday May 21, 2014
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A total of 3,600 Somali personnel have received training in Uganda, learning
new skills to take back to Somalia upon joining the country's Armed Forces,
in the efforts to stabilize towns and villages and restore security for the
Somali people.
However, some of the Somalis trained in Uganda are reportedly absorbed by
al-Shabab fighters upon homecoming.
This is while the European Union Mission Commander to Somalia has also
dismissed the allegation that the Ugandan Army with the support of the EU
engaged in training Al Shabaab fighters who continue to battle against the
Somali Transitional Government.
Uganda's Chief of Defense Force General Edward Katumba Wamala also confirmed
that the country's troops currently deployed in South Sudan will begin their
partial withdrawal from Juba after the forces of Intergovernmental Authority
on Development (IGAD) are deployed on the ground.
Uganda has been accused on several occasions of training Al-shabaab fighters
under the guise of empowering the Somali National Armed Forces. But Kampala,
whose role in Somalia is critical in the restoration of security to the war
ravaged country, remains resolute in its control of key installations there.
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