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SOMALI POLICE OFFICERS SENT TO UGANDA FOR TRAINING August 26, 2005
<|somalia_uganda.jpg|East Africa Map|left|>Sixty five Somali senior police officers flew to Uganda this week for a three-week crash course for rebuilding Somalia’s police force.
Ugandan police spokesman Patrick Onyango was quoted as saying "The course facilitated by Ugandan police with funding from the British government will assess the current security situation in Somalia with a view of developing an implementation plan of action for rebuilding the police force". Other reports say it was funded by the UNDP.
The trainees will learn from Uganda’s past civil war and its road to today’s position as one of the most stable countries in the region.
Somali deputy internal affairs minister, Fahma Ahmed thanked President Yoweri Museveni and said "We used to send our officers for training in the UK and the United States but now we shall train them in Africa".
Earlier this month, Uganda pledged to send one peace-keeping army battalion to Somalia but never materialized because of financial strains. Donor countries still remember the United Nation’s failure in Somalia in mid nineties and are very skeptical when it comes to peace foreign peace keepers in Somalia. However, this move of helping Somalis do the job is widely welcomed.