Africa

Africa, Politics

UN back in Somalia

The United Nations, foreign missions and organisations that work in Somalia will move back into the country within two months, a senior UN official side. Most organisations working in Somalia were based in Nairobi as it was considered too dangerous for them to work within the country. The organisations hope to establish bases in breakaway province Somaliland, the semi-autonomic region of Puntland, as well as in Mogadishu. Security has been beefed up in Somalia, after 1900 additional African Union troops were brought into the country in response to the July 11 attacks in Uganda by al-Shabab. Read more: Reuters Africa

0

Gallery

Please peer review 3 community comments before your comment can be posted

X

This article is free to read.

Sign up for free or sign in to continue reading.

Unlike our competitors, we don’t force you to pay to read the news but we do need your email address to make your experience better.


Nearly there! Create a password to finish signing up with us:

Please enter your password or get a sign in link if you’ve forgotten

Open Sesame! Thanks for signing up.

We would like our readers to start paying for Daily Maverick...

…but we are not going to force you to. Over 10 million users come to us each month for the news. We have not put it behind a paywall because the truth should not be a luxury.

Instead we ask our readers who can afford to contribute, even a small amount each month, to do so.

If you appreciate it and want to see us keep going then please consider contributing whatever you can.

Support Daily Maverick→
Payment options

Become a Maverick Insider

This could have been a paywall

On another site this would have been a paywall. Maverick Insider keeps our content free for all.

Become an Insider

Every seed of hope will one day sprout.

South African citizens throughout the country are standing up for our human rights. Stay informed, connected and inspired by our weekly FREE Maverick Citizen newsletter.