Djibouti, (RBC Radio) Djibouti said on Thursday it planned to send 450 soldiers to Somalia on next month to boost the African Union peace keeping mission.
“We are preparing our troops. We are training them so that they can carry out their mission in a very efficient way,” Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf told Reuters on the sidelines of an African Union foreign ministers’ meeting.
“Somalia is a neighbouring country. We have a very close relationship. We can see what is going on there and we have to contribute as Africans,” he said.
Uganda and Burundi each have 2,500 peacekeepers in Mogadishu with the AU’s AMISOM mission protecting the fragile Western-backed government.
Fighting between pro-government militia and the Islamist al Shabaab group — which Washington terms as al Qaeda’s proxy in the region — has killed more than 21,000 Somalis and driven 1.5 million from their homes.
Together with Hizbul Islam, another hardline Islamist group, al Shabaab wants to topple the weak government which UN backs.
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