Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says 54 Ugandan peacekeepers have been killed in an assault final week by militant group al-Shabab on a army base in Somalia.
Museveni stated the Uganda Folks’s Defence Forces (UPDF) had since recaptured the bottom from the Islamist group.
“Our troopers demonstrated exceptional resilience and reorganised themselves, ensuing within the recapture of the bottom by Tuesday,” the president stated.
Al-Shabab fighters had focused the bottom early on Friday in Bulamarer, 130km southwest of the capital Mogadishu.
Museveni stated final week that there had been Ugandan casualties however had not given additional particulars in regards to the assault on the troops, who’re serving within the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS).
Al-Shabab, which has stated it carried out suicide bomb assaults and killed 137 troopers on the base, has been preventing since 2006 to interchange Somalia’s Western-backed authorities with its personal rule based mostly on a strict interpretation of Islamic legislation.
