Plane carrying the first batch of Somali troops landed at Mogadishu airport BY TESFANEWS* Somalia’s government says the first batch of the over 5,000 Somali cadets who were sent to Eritrea for a three-year military training have returned home. The arrival of these contingents comes a day after Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said soldiers […]
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BY KESETE GHEBREHIWET | SHABAIT An area which was once a wilderness became a training center in 1994. The first round members of the national service set their feet on the grounds of Sawa in the same year. Since then Sawa has been steadily transformed from just a plain into an urban area. There are […]
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BY EMIRATES NEWS AGENCY The UAE has decided to disband its military training programme in Somalia which started in 2014 to build the capabilities of the Somali army. The decision comes in response to Somali security forces’ seizure of a UAE-registered civil aircraft at Mogadishu Airport and confiscation of money destined to pay the soldiers.
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Turkey opens a $50 million military base along the seafront in Mogadishu. It’s the biggest training base outside Turkey. BY AGENCIES * Turkey opened its largest overseas military training camp on Saturday on a 400-hectare seafront site in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The $50 million facility, which has been under construction since March 2015, […]
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