UGANDA PLANS TO WITHDRAW ITS TROOP FROM SOMALIA BY DECEMBER NEXT YEAR

Uganda has reached a decision of withdrawing it's troop from Somalia by December 2017. This is following frustration from Somalia's army as well as the international partners as reported to the BBC by Ugandan chief of defence forces General Katumba Wamala. Wamala said that it has reached a time for Somalia to take over the role of maintaining it's security but this has not been the case despite the training of its soldiers and army officers by Turkey, UK and US.

Ugandan government said  that it's Uganda among other troop contributing nations like Kenya, Burundi and Ethiopia that contributes the largest percentage of troops to the Africa Union force fighting Islamic militant Al-shabaab but still Somalia is not co-ordinating its activities and this is causing problems.

Some have even gone ahead and questioned the effectiveness of AU mission in Somalia because it has struggled to secure areas outside the big towns and it has also been plagued with allegations of corruption.