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Reports said that a small advance team of African Union troops has arrived in Somalia |
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
 Reports said that a small advance team of African Union troops has arrived in Somalia. Police sources and airport staff in the southern town of Baidoa said that 30 soldiers from Uganda had arrived in the town on a plane. The Ugandan forces will be the first to be deployed in Somalia. Some 8,000 AU peacekeepers are to be sent to Somalia to replace Ethiopian troops, who ousted the Islamists last year. But so far only half that number has been contributed by the AU member states. Nigeria has said its 850 soldiers will be deployed in the middle of April in three phases. Other countries that have pledged to send troops are Ghana and Burundi. Uganda is expected to send some 1,500 troops to the Somalia
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