African Union Will Train 800 Policemen to Secure Somali Capital
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The African Union Mission in Somalia said it will train an additional 800 policemen to provide security in the capital, Mogadishu, as AU peacekeepers make gains against militias seeking to topple the government.
“Amisom forces continue to take ground from armed opposition groups in Mogadishu,” Wafula Wamunyinyi, deputy special representative of the chairman of the AU Commission for Somalia, told reporters today in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya. “We intend to ensure that areas falling under Amisom control will be under police, not soldiers, to ensure law and order in Somalia.”