Monday, June 25, 2007
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Addis Ababa (AFP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was in Ethiopia over the weekend for talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and African Union officials on war-ravaged Somalia and other issues."Museveni and Prime Minister Meles will hold discussions on both bilateral and continental issues," a senior government official told the Ethiopian news agency on Sunday.
On top of the agenda for both leaders will be the situation in war-torn Somalia, where Uganda in early March deployed about 1 500 troops at the vanguard of around 8 000 soldiers the African Union (AU) is struggling to assemble in the Horn of Africa nation.
About 1 000 Burundian soldiers are scheduled to join the AU peacekeeping force next month which at present comprises solely of Ugandan soldiers.
Somali government troops, backed by Ethiopian forces, quelled an Islamist insurgency in April after months of fighting in Mogadishu left hundreds of civilians dead and hundreds of thousands displaced.
Museveni is also due to meet with the head of the African Union, Alpha Oumar Konare. The AU is headquartered in the Ethiopian capital.
Source: AFP, June 25, 2007