Up to 20 Bundeswehr soldiers are to Somalia

 

Soldiers in Saxony are adopted for her commitment to Afghanistan. The Bundeswehr is to be equipped with up to 20 soldiers participate in a training mission in Somalia. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt Photo: AP

Berlin - The German Armed Forces will be equipped with up to 20 soldiers participate in an EU training mission in the war-torn country Somalia. This was decided by the Cabinet.

The Bundeswehr has been involved to December in the training of Somali soldiers in Uganda, but first made the move of the mission in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, not for safety reasons.

Now from April to participate again two consultants and from August also three trainers. In Somalia for more than two decades fighting the Islamist Al-Shabaab militia against the central government. When conflicts and terrorist attacks, thousands of people have already been killed; over a million have fled the country.

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