Uganda is training 1,700 soldiers to be redeployed in Somalia on a peacekeeping mission. This follows a United Nations resolution last week allowing Uganda, Burundi and Djibouti to increase soldiers in Mogadishu.

The UN in the same resolution allowed Burundi to send 1,000 soldiers to Somalia while Djibouti will take there 850. In total Uganda, Djibouti and Burundi have been allowed to send 3,550 soldiers to Somalia on a peace keeping mission. Currently Djibouti has one battalion in Mogadishu, Uganda 5,160 and Burundi has 4,700.  Uganda was the first country to deploy in Mogadishu, an act that led Al shabaab rebels in Mogadishu to bomb Kampala in July 2010, in which attack over 76 people were killed and scores of others injured.  Burundi was the second country to deploy in Somalia while Djibouti was the third. Kenya is also preparing to deploy in Somalia.

Sources in Somalia say that an increase in the number of foreign soldiers in Somalia has been done in preparation for the second phase of war that is about to be launched in Somalia against Al Shabaab fighters.

A source tells us that African Union wants to eliminate insurgency in Somalia in four phases. The first phase was in Mogadishu and the second phase is expansion into South West of Mogadishu. The Soldiers on a piece keeping mission are planning a deadly attack on Al Shabaab camps in Gedo, central regions of Bay, Bakool and Hiiraan town, South West of Mogadishu.