Britain To Deploy Troops For Somalia Peacekeeping Mission

Britain is to send dozens of troops to Somalia and possibly South Sudan to train soldiers and boost security in the region, Downing Street said Monday.

Cameron will offer up to 70 personal to take on the al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists in Somalia and around 300 members of the Armed Forces over multiple deployments to assist the UN’s peacekeeping efforts in South Sudan.

David Cameron is to hold face-to-face talks with Iranian president Hasan Rouhani in a fresh bid to revive the stalled Syrian peace process.

The announcement will include an initial number of at least 250 troops to be deployed and that the soldiers will be tasked to deal with combat training and engineering advice.

Mr Cameron – who yesterday said he wanted to see Assad face trial at the global criminal court – made clear his view that there could be no long-term solution while the Syrian leader remained in power.

“We think Britain has a particular role in training and logistics and expertise and standards, so we want to step up what we are doing”, Cameron said.

About 260 million pounds (about Dollars 390 million) has been given in aid to South Sudan since the start of the civil war in December 2013.

“Obviously we will want to see all the right force protection arrangements in place but we should be playing a part in this”.

President Obama told the United Nations summit in New York the global community must work together to defeat the jihadi group, also known as Isil, that has taken over large parts of Iraq and Syria. It means less terrorism, less migration, less piracy. If we can, as peacekeepers, help to maintain a level of decency to enable development in that country, there will again be less poverty, less migration, less issues that affect us back home.

Efforts to engage Tehran – a close ally of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria – in a push to end the protracted civil war have been spurred on by a thaw in relations with the West.

But he was accused by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of failing to show leadership on the issue by choosing not to address the main UN General Assembly session in person, leaving it to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to speak for the United Kingdom on Syria.

British troops will not be involved in combat roles, Mr Cameron said.