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Somalia: Up to 30 Percent of Soldiers Unarmed
[VOA News] Since September 2017, al-Shabaab...  the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...hard boyz have overrun four Somali government military bases, killing more than 60 soldiers and seizing large quantities of weapons. Now, a military assessment by the Somali government found some of the troops manning these bases are completely unarmed. The "Operational Readiness Assessment" conducted by the government found that approximately 30 percent of the soldiers in the bases do not have weapons. The evaluators said some units also lack medium and heavy weaponry, and some are "undermanned." On Tuesday, Somali Defense Minister Mohammed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman acknowledged the army's shortcomings. "There are some who are not armed. We are working to complete their equipment but a majority of them have weapons," he said in an exclusive interview with VOA's Somali service. Posted by: Fred 2017-12-20 |
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