Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced the deaths of 54 Ugandan soldiers in an al-Shabab attack on a base housing African Union peacekeepers in Somalia.
Museveni’s statement on Saturday comes a week after al-Shabab fighters stormed the base in Lower Shebelle, 130 kilometres (80 miles) southwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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Source: Al Jazeera