Thursday, January 27, 2011
Upon arrival in Kampala on Wednesday the Somali President held meetings with the Ugandan Defense Minister Dr Crispus Kiyonga and the commander of the Ugandan infantry Lieutenant General Wamala Katukmba and gave them details on the ground and the successful operations that the African Union peacekeepers are conducting in Somalia.
The statement said that the Somali president will hold discussions with his Ugandan counterpart before flying to Addis Ababa for the AU summit later on the day.
“The two leaders will discuss how to develop the already bilateral relations between the brother nations of Somalia and Uganda” the statement from the presidential palace of which APA obtained a copy said.
Uganda is one of the closest African countries to Somalia and as well as it was the first African nation which sent its troops to Somalia just nearly four years ago to protect the Somali government from the Al-Qaeda-proxy terrorists in the Horn of Africa country.
Fighting in the capital Mogadishu has engulfed the lives of more than 23,000 people mainly civilians since January 2007. Over 1.5 million others also fled from their homes in the restive city since then.
Source: APA