The AU began withdrawing its troops from Somalia The African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia said that it had finished the fir...

 

The AU began withdrawing its troops from Somalia

The African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia said that it had finished the first phase of troop withdrawal in an effort to reduce the number of its personnel and relinquish control of security operations to the nation's army and police.

She said in a statement that a total of 7 bases had been turned over to the Somali security forces, allowing 2 personnel to leave before the deadline of June 30.

The United Nations Security Committee extended the six-month deadline for the AU force on the following Tuesday. The AU force now has until the end of September to remove 3,000 soldiers.

By the end of the next year, the AU's more than 19,000 military and police personnel stationed in Somalia—comprising personnel from Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda—should have all left the country. the nation

Despite the attacks launched by government forces assisted by the AU and the US, terrorist organisations connected to Al-Qaeda continue to target the Mogadishu city. final August.

54 Ugandan troops who were serving in the peacekeeping mission were slain in an attack by the Al-Shabaab group at the end of May of last year at an AU military base in the southwest of the capital.