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From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Sat Jul 24 2010 - 18:41:17 EDT
Ugandan Leader Wants United Nations to Fund Help Somalia Peace Operations
By Fred Ojambo - Jul 24, 2010
Ugandan President
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Yoweri Museveni wants the United Nations to provide funding and military
support to rid Somalia of terrorists who claimed responsibility for the July
11 bombings that killed 76 people in the capital, Kampala.
A lack of resources constrains some of Somalia's neighboring countries, who
are ready to help restore stability in the Horn of Africa nation, the
Ugandan president said in an e-mailed statement from the capital today.
The East African countries must step in to stop Somalia's crisis from
deepening because "there is no credible liberation movement or the type of
opposition that can take over if government collapses," Museveni said.
"Somalia has been open for over 20 years to terrorism. The Security Council
should provide enough money and equipment to finish the job."
Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Djibouti, under the regional
Inter-Government Authority on Development asked the African Union to
"immediately" send an extra 2,000 troops to Somalia, and the UN Security
Council pledged to help raise another 20,000 soldiers to stem the spread of
terrorism, the Ugandan leader said on July 5.
Museveni asked the permanent members of the Security Council to make a
bigger commitment to stopping the al-Shabaab Islamist militant group, which
the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda,
from spreading terrorism in Somalia, he said at a meeting with
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Henry Bellingham, the British minister for African affairs, yesterday.
Forces
Uganda has 2,700 soldiers in Somalia and Burundi has 2,550, according to the
website of the Francophone Research Network on Peace Operations.
More countries are willing to send troops to Somalia after al-Shabaab
claimed responsibility for the twin bombings in Kampala that killed 76
people and injured dozens of others while they were watching the final of
the soccer World Cup played in South Africa on July 11,
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Ramtane Lamamra, the African Union Commisioner for peace and security, said
on July 19.
Islamic militias including al-Shabaab and Hisb-ul-Islam have been battling
Somalia's government for three years and control most of southern and
central Somalia, and sections of Mogadishu.
Somalia is in its 19th year of civil war and hasn't had a functioning
central administration since the overthrow of former dictator
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Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
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