Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has introduced the deaths of 54 Ugandan troopers in an al-Shabab assault on a base housing African Union peacekeepers in Somalia.
Museveni’s assertion on Saturday comes per week after al-Shabab fighters stormed the bottom in Bulamarer, 130 kilometres (80 miles) southwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
The armed group claimed it carried out suicide bomb assaults on Could 26 and killed 137 troopers.
Museveni stated on Saturday that the Uganda Individuals’s Defence Forces (UPDF) had since recaptured the bottom from the al-Qaeda-linked armed group.
Al Jazeera’s Barbara Angopa experiences.
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