{"id":52765,"date":"2025-01-29T07:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-to-increase-troop-deployment-in-somalia-after-burundi-s-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T07:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:16:46","slug":"uganda-to-increase-troop-deployment-in-somalia-after-burundi-s-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-to-increase-troop-deployment-in-somalia-after-burundi-s-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda to increase troop deployment in Somalia after Burundi&#8217;s withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military spokesperson Felix Kulayigye told Xinhua that Uganda has been assigned an additional sector previously covered by Burundian forces.<\/p>\n<p>Kulayigye explained that reinforcing Uganda\u2019s presence in Somalia is necessary since the current number of troops is insufficient to manage both sectors. <\/p>\n<p>He added that deployment will commence once AUSSOM finalizes the required paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda has been part of peacekeeping efforts in Somalia since 2007. Until January, Burundi was among the countries contributing troops to the mission, alongside Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-80787\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/land-3.jpg\" alt=\"Uganda is set to deploy additional peacekeeping troops to Somalia following Burundi\u2019s withdrawal from the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda will deploy additional peacekeeping troops to Somalia following Burundi\u2019s withdrawal from the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), the Ugandan military announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000080786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000080786,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/land.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/land.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/land.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/land.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/land.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/land.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000080786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52765"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52765"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}