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Newly trained Somali forces arrive at Beledweyne town
2012-06-13
(Sh. M. Network)-Authorities in central Somalia say that undisclosed newly trained troops for TFG have arrived at Beledweyne town, the picturesque provincial capital of Hiiren region to boost up the security.

Adawe Elmi Nur, the deputy governor of Hiiran region for Somali government, told Shabelle Media by phone from Beledweyne that those forces reached this morning the town have recently completed their training course provided by Somali and Æthiopian military experts in a training camp located Junta-Kundisho area, on the outskirts of Beledweyne.

Beledweyne, a strategic town in central Somalia, lies just about 206 miles (332 km), north of Mogadishu fell to Somali and Æthiopian troops in last December after Al shabab fighters retreated, all without firing a single shot.

AU soldiers, mainly from Djibouti have dispatched the first troops in the town this month to take over the security from the current operating Æthiopian troops who are not part of African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
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