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Somalia: Uganda deploys more peacekeepers in volatile Somalia

Mogadishu Tuesday, 24 March 2009 SMC 

Uganda has deployed another battalion of soldiers in volatile Somalia bringing the total number of its soldiers there to over 2,000, a top military commander here has said.

Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, Chief of Defense Forces of Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) told reporters on Tuesday that the battalion left for Somalia on Sunday to beef up the already 1,700 Ugandan peacekeepers deployed in the capital Mogadishu.

"With the new president, parliament, reinforcement of AMISOM, we hope to begin seeing faster reconciliation in Somalia," he said.

The troops are deployed under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).

The new deployment in the Horn of African country comes two weeks after the Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed visited Uganda and Burundi seeking for more help.

Crispus Kiyonga, Uganda's minister of defense told parliament early this year that Burundi would also be sending another battalion to Somalia to beef up its other battalion already deployed there.

He said that the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the opposition Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia had agreed to raise another 10,000 troops internally, to pacify the war-torn country.

Nyakairima said in January that once the troops are on the ground, two battalions, one battalion from Uganda or Burundi together with another from the local joint force would be deployed in Baidoa to protect parliament.

The over 3,500 peacekeepers now deployed in Somalia are far below the 8,000 African Union peacekeepers required to help pacify the lawless country.

The Ethiopians troops who helped the TFG topple an Islamist administration in late 2006 withdrew early this year, creating an urgent need to deploy more peacekeepers.

Somalia has lacked a strong government since the ouster of military strongman Siad Barre in 1991. Source: Xinhua

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