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Uganda to withdraw troops from Somalia's Amisom force
Somali federal government forces patrol a street in Mogadishu on February 18, 2015. Uganda will pull its soldiers out of the African Union mission fighting Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, its military chief has said AFP PHOTO | MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB
Uganda will pull its soldiers out of the African Union mission fighting Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, its military chief has said.
Gen Katumba Wamala said the decision to withdraw the troops by December 2017 was taken because of frustration with the Somali army and military advisers from the US, the UK and Turkey.
Uganda provides the biggest contingent of soldiers to the AU force, Amisom.
Amisom has helped push Al-Shabaab out of most of Somalia's major towns.
But the militants continue to mount deadly suicide bombings and guerrilla attacks.
