Uganda confirms casualties among country's soldiers in Somali attack: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said late on Saturday there had been casualties during an attack by Somalia's Islamist group Al-Shabaab on a military base manned by Ugandan…
Museveni did not say how many soldiers were killed or wounded but it was the first official admission of losses in the attack among the Ugandan troops who are serving in the AU Transition Mission in Somalia .
“Condolences to the country and the families of those who died,” Museveni said in a statement, adding the country's military had set up a panel to investigate what happened. Al-Shabaab has since 2006 has been fighting to topple Somalia's Western-backed government and establish its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Museveni said during the attack “some of the soldiers there did not perform as expected and panicked, which disorganised them and the Al-Shabaab took advantage of that to overrun the base and destroy some of the equipment.”
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