Uganda and Burundi are this month expected to send additional soldiers to Somalia, bringing to 5,100 the number of foreign troops deployed to the war-torn country
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Uganda and Burundi are this month expected to send additional soldiers to Somalia, bringing to 5,100 the number of foreign troops deployed to the war-torn country
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1 ... 3rsxfrz/-/

Somalia: Ethiopian occupation ends, suffering continues
Somalia is often cited by Western politicians and journalists as the archetypical “failed state”, with no functioning state since the collapse of the last central government in 1991, and with power contested by warlords, Islamists, clan militias, armed criminal gangs and even pirates.
In this mainstream media narrative, military intervention by the West or Western proxies is justified both to lessen the suffering of the country’s people and prevent neighbouring countries from being destabilised. Indeed, the existence of such “failed states” has become one of the main justifications for Western militarism.
However, Somalia’s 18 years of anarchy have been accompanied by direct and indirect Western interventions, each of which has increased the level of death and suffering and prolonged the chaos.
While the Ethiopian occupation forces have left, Ethiopian troops continue to make cross-border incursions. Furthermore, a 8000-strong Ugandan and Burundian African Union “peacekeeping” force remains.
On February 2 in Mogadishu, after a roadside bomb injured a soldier, Ugandan troops fired into a civillian crowd, killing 36.
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