{"id":46655,"date":"2023-03-21T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/museveni-tells-somali-leader-to-prioritise-peace"},"modified":"2023-03-21T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:48:00","slug":"museveni-tells-somali-leader-to-prioritise-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/museveni-tells-somali-leader-to-prioritise-peace","title":{"rendered":"Museveni tells Somali leader to prioritise peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni has urged the people of Somalia to consider building a People\u2019s National Army with the correct ideology of defending their country for peace to prevail.<\/p>\n

He said the country needs to stabilise so as to raise enough resources for self-sustenance.<\/p>\n

This was during a meeting with the visiting President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who paid a courtesy call on his Ugandan counterpart at State House Entebbe on Sunday.<\/p>\n

According to President Museveni, like the Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF), an army should be built on voluntarism to protect the State so that in future, the country can raise resources to pay the soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a problem with many West African countries. The collapse of the security apparatus is caused by mixing defence with money. For us we say, you build a people\u2019s liberation army based on voluntarism. That\u2019s how we built our force,\u201d President Museveni said.<\/p>\n

He added that this will enable Somalia, which is three times bigger than Uganda in size, to recruit enough manpower to defend and liberate the country so that it\u2019s able to collect taxes and pay salaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet peace first and money later. If the people are there, what you need to tell them is how a poor man can defend himself with or without money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

President Mohamud, who finished his visit to Uganda yesterday, informed Mr Museveni that because of the peace ushered in by the UPDF and other peace-contributing countries, Somalia has been able to recruit a good number of community defence forces.<\/p>\n

He said the forces are now able to defend their areas under the direct supervision of the Somali National Army.<\/p>\n

He also discussed issues of mutual concern, including an upcoming conference of troop-contributing countries in Kampala, focusing on Somalia\u2019s fight against international terrorism.<\/p>\n

While in Uganda, President Mohamud alongside his Ugandan counterpart also witnessed the passing out of 2,900 trainees for the Somali National Army who successfully concluded their 4-month special Basic Military Training at the Special Mission Training Centre in Butiaba, Buliisa District.<\/p>\n

President yesterday tweeted, \u201cI therefore acknowledge H.E Sheikh Hassan\u2019s good words about Uganda in regard to our modest contribution to the resistance against the ideologically confused terrorists in Somalia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ministers for Defence of both countries; Uganda\u2019s Vincent Baamulangaki Ssempijja and Somalia\u2019s Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur also attended the engagements. President Mohamud departed for Somalia yesterday.<\/p>\n

Troops <\/b><\/p>\n

Somalia wants to train and recruit at least 24,000 soldiers by December 2024 to take over from the African Transitional Mission in Somalia, whose troops including from Uganda and Djibouti, are expected to start withdrawing from the country in 2023.<\/p>\n

In 2007, Uganda was the first country to send troops to keep peace Somalia.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Uganda<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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