Rwanda Grieves With Uganda Over Slain Peacekeepers

Saturday September 5, 2015

Rwanda government has said it stands with Ugandans for the loss of its soldiers killed in an Al-Shabab attack in Somalia on Tuesday.

At least 12 Ugandan soldiers were killed on Tuesday, when Al-Shabab militants attacked African Union military base in Somalia.

Expressing Rwanda’s sympathy for Uganda and the families of those lost in the attack, Foreign Minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, said on his twitter handle: “Rwanda Government and people express solidarity and sympathy to Uganda for fallen UPDF soldiers in Somalia! Dying so others can live is noble!”

The African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, AMISOM where Ugandan troops are party to, responded to Minister’s tweet; “AMISOM thanks you for the support!”

Yesterday, flag-covered coffins of 12 fallen Ugandan soldiers were offloaded from a UN plane at the country’s Entebbe International Airport.

Al-Shabab, an Islamic terrorist group, had on Tuesday claimed it killed 50 Ugandan soldiers at the base in the farming town of Janale in southern Somalia.

Uganda’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that Ugandan soldiers captured two of the attackers and killed 46 of them.

Since 2007, Uganda, Ethiopia; Djibuti and Kenya are big contributors of troops to war-torn Somalia, under the African Union Mission in the horn of African country.

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