Bad history

Those planning a UN peacekeeping mission to Somalia are haunted by the disasters of 15 years ago

Ethiopian and Ugandan troops in Somalia are due to welcome a new contingent of peacekeepers this month. Two battalions of soldiers from Burundi, with 1,750 men, should arrive in Mogadishu after six weeks' training supported by the United States; France has promised to lift them in. They were originally due in July but only in August did a reconnaissance mission look at the proposed accommodation and facilities.

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Ethiopian, Ugandan, Burundi, United States, France, Ghana, John Kufuor, Benin, Nigeria, Mali, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Hassan Dahir 'Aweys', Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, Suleiman Olad Roble, Ngoma Ngime, Ali Mohamed Gedi, Djibouti, Kenya, Al Qaida, Al Shabaab, Al Shabaab

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