Somali experts prepare Ugandan troops for Somalia mission

[General Duke]

Somali experts prepare Ugandan troops for Somalia mission

- Monday, April 18, 2005 at 14:34

 

Two Somali experts are in Uganda to orient the Somalia-bound Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) troops on Somali culture, law and language.

 

The UPDF 2nd Division Spokesman Chris Magezi told Xinhua by telephone on Monday that the experts, Omar Ahmed and Zainab Yusuf are in the country to prepare the UPDF for their mission in Somalia.

 

He said that the experts who are part of the preparation team have been in the country for a month briefing the UPDF, among other things, the culture and language of the Somali people.

 

He noted that the rehearsals of the Somalia-bound UPDF troops are still going on, adding that Uganda will send 850 troops, expected to leave the country by April 30.

 

Recently Uganda's Foreign Minister Sam Kuteesa said that the east African governments agreed to send 6,800 peace keeping troops to Somalia, from Uganda and Sudan.

 

Last month, foreign ministers from the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, a regional body that brings together seven countries, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia endorsed a proposal to deploy a regional peacekeeping force in Somali starting April 30.

 

The peacekeeping force will be in the lawless country for nine months and thereafter, the African Union force will take over.

 

The force will help to ensure that the federal transition government of Somalia, which is currently seating in neighboring Kenya, relocated to Somalia.

 

Somalia has been without a functioning central authority since the overthrow of Mohamed Said Barre's regime in 1991.

 

Source: People's Daily Online

[NGONGE]

Can just imagine a bunch of Ugandans coming to Somalia having already been taught the price of a fresh bundle of qaat and the polite way in which to ask a waiter for faraxal!

[Jumatatu]

Saxiib they r not going to come, may they will come to Nairobi and look after Yeey and his close family but certainly not to Somalia.