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Mogadisho 24 Augosto
2009 Shaaficiyah Media.
2 Ugandan peacekeepers have on Monday morning
died in an Explosion along Mecca Al-Mukarama Street in Mogadishu.
“A small number of the Ugandan troops stationed along
Mecca Al-Mukarama Street conduct daily security checkups along
the Street, and today was not exceptional, in fact the explosion
was a landmine and has occurred at around 6:00am in the morning,
and was so powerful that it was heard in the entire vicinity,
and instantly after the explosion there was huge smoke which
has engulfed in the whole area, and after the smoke fade away
I witnessed 2 of the soldiers who have died though I am not
sure of the wounded number” said Musa Khalif a resident
in the area where the incident occurred
The Ugandan peacekeepers based in the area
have cordoned off the entire area for sometime, and have frozen
the activities which were taking the place along the Street,
but have later reopened. Yet there are no comments coming
from the African Mission in Somalia regarding the explosion
in which two of their boys were killed.
The Ugandan troops were the first to arrive
in Somalia instantaneously after the government of Somalia
led by President Abdullah Yussuf was formed in Kenya in the
year 2005, and so far have lost more than 18 soldiers who
most of them have died in explosions.
There are more than 4,000 troops on the ground,
and mainly keeping guard at government institutions and important
places such as the seaport and the airport.
Somalia has not had effective central rule
since late Mohammed Siyad Barre was ousted from power in the
year 1991.
Omar Hussein
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