Uganda warns it could withdraw peacekeepers from Somalia

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Uganda warns it could withdraw peacekeepers from Somalia

 

Friday, June 03, 2011

 

 

Yoweri Museveni has warned that Uganda could withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Somalia, if the mandate of that country's transitional government is not extended, media reports said Friday.

 

He made the remarks on Thursday to the 46-member International Contact Group on Somalia which is currently meeting in Kampala, according to the New Vision newspaper.

 

Museveni proposed a one-year extension of Somalia's transitional federal institutions, which is set to expire on August 23.

 

The expiry would lead to a pullout of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeeping mission, and enable militants in Somalia to regroup, according to Museveni.

 

'Certainly for Uganda, we cannot be in that kind of situation. The consequences of an AMISOM withdrawal are so serious to think about. The consequences of AMISOM withdrawal will be grave, leaving Somalia in anarchy,' Museveni said.

 

According to the report, Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed supported Museveni's proposal.

 

Somalia has not had a functional government in two decades, with militants from the Islamist Al-Shabaab and other groups with links to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network holding control of areas in the south and centre of the country.

 

Last July, Somali militants carried out suicide bombings in the Ugandan capital Kampala that claimed more than 70 lives.

 

Soldiers from Uganda and Burundi make up the AMISOM force which is supporting 9,000 African Union troops in Somalia.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

That's it sharif will get another year in office he played it well

[oba hiloowlow]

:D

[The Zack]

XX, Yoweri is not the boss, Mahiga is. After all who pays the bills? Aint that the UN?

[General Duke]

^^^Only Puntland has an option, Narnia and others will have to follow Sharif Hotels extension.

Trust me if this foolishness gets a go ahead there will be no Somalia government for a while.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

The Zack;725940 wrote:

XX, Yoweri is not the boss, Mahiga is. After all who pays the bills? Aint that the UN?

They are working together how ever if the UN wants to bring blue Helmets they are more than welcome but the ugandan troops are From uganda

[The Zack]

^lol what option does puntland have? Secession? Adeer we are all in it. Bootada naga yaree.

[Liqaye]

It must be frustrating for Museveni and the Ugandans to finally have reached critical mass both in numbers and operational efficiency, and to have to watch bickering politicians try to burn the whole edifice down at every chance.

 

Let us not forget that how ever much some of us abuse them they have lost men in this war, and other peoples unlike Somalis might not want something like deaths of soldiers to be for so futile an exercise!!

[General Duke]

^^^Uganda has no right to support an extension for a failed politician. If it wants to take its troops out it should. For all their shelling and killing of civilians they have not captured the city of Mogadishu.

 

Sharif Ahmed is desperate and this is the last move of a man who knows his end is here.

[Somalina]

@awoowe.

[Jacaylbaro]

Back to Zero ...... and the drama continues