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Mon 01 Jan 2010EU agrees to train Somali troops
The European Union agreed today to set up a military mission in Uganda to train Somali government forces who are fighting an Islamist insurgency.
The mission, expected to be led by Spain and involving around 100 troops, should begin in the second quarter of this year, EU foreign ministers decided at a meeting in Brussels.
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