MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has pledged to expedite the process to repatriate thousands of Somali soldiers trained in Eritrea.
During a meeting with a committee representing the parents of Somali soldiers training in Eritrea at the Presidential Palace on Friday, President Mohamud assured that his government will bring home the soldiers.
The parental committee commended the President for prioritizing their child’s situation and quickly fulfilling his promise.
Last December, the first batch of several thousand Somali troops that were sent to Eritrea for training in 2019 and 2020 arrived back in Mogadishu.
It was in 2019 that the first of these troops, numbering 5,000 in all, were secretly taken to Eritrea to receive training.
Many Somalis objected to the training, fearing that some of the soldiers would be used in Ethiopia’s Tigray war and parents of the troops pressured the president to bring them home.
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