Kampala (Alshahid)—Ugandan Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga has said the mandate of the peacekeeping force in Somalia needs to be reviewed, new vision reported.
Briefing Parliament yesterday, the minister said the African Union (AU) force, composed mostly of Ugandan soldiers, should be allowed to attack.
“As per now, the mandate is very restrictive. It is framed in a [...]
New York (Alshahid)—Ugandan President Yuweri Museveni called for the deployment of more troops in Somalia, Daily Monitor reported on Monday.
Mr. Museveini , who is attending the UN general assembly in New York, said soldiers should be deployed in the areas of Baidoa and Kisumayu, which are controlled by the main rebel group.
Al shabaab attacked and [...]
Mogadishu (Alshahid) — The deputy commander of the African Union Mission in Somalia known as AMISOM and eight other peace keepers have been killed in two suicide attacks in their main base in Mogadishu, officials said on Thursday.
Ugandan army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kulayigye said the AMISOM deputy commander Major General Juvenal Niyonguruza died in [...]
Kampala (Alshahid) – The African Union (AU) has reviewed the mandate of Ugandan soldiers in Somalia and allowed them to attack the Al-Shabaab militants, Ugnadan Defence Minister announced on Saturday.
The Monitor newspaper said Dr Crispus Kiyonga told Journalists after flagging- off three Ugandan battalions to Somalia at Entebbe military airbase yesterday that the earlier mandate [...]
Jul. 15, 2009- The bodies of the three UPDF peacekeepers killed by the Somali Islamist fundamentalists in Mogadishu on Saturday were flown back home yesterday morning aboard an African Union helicopter.
The dead have been identified as Yowasi Kule from Kasese, Salim Otim of Amuria and Jasper Okebo from Lira District.
The Defence/army spokesperson, Maj. Felix Kulayigye, [...]
UGANDA, whose forces form part of the African Union peacekeepers in Somalia, called Tuesday for a change of mandate for the force to allow them tackle insurgents in the war-ravaged country.
“Right now we are engaged in peacekeeping where there is no peace,” Ugandan army spokesman Major Felix Kulaiyigye said. “They need to change their mandate [...]
