PRESIDENT TINUBU DEPARTS JEDDAH FOR ABUJA AFTER SUCCESSFUL UMRAH IN MAKKAH. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE PRESIDENT TINUBU DEPARTS JEDDAH FOR ABUJA AFTER SUCCESSFUL UMRAH IN MAKKAH President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday departed King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for Abuja after successfully completing his Umrah (Lesser Hajj) in the holy city of Makkah. President Tinubu's plane took off at the Royal Terminal of the King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, at exactly 5:13.pm Saudi time. The Deputy Governor of the Makkah Region, Prince Saud bin MISHAAL bin Abdulaziz Al Saud; Nigerian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Ambassador Yakubu Gambo, and the Hon. Consul-General, Ambassador Muazam Ibrahim Nayaya, accompanied the President to the airport. Before departure, President Tinubu had a brief meeting with the Deputy Governor of Makkah at the Royal Guest Palace in the airport. On arrival on Thursday in Saudi Arabia, the President led members of the Nigerian delegation to perform the Umrah rites, including the circumambulation of...

UGANDA SAYS ITS TROOPS TO REMAIN IN SOMALIA DESPITE AU MISSION UNCERTAINTY. (PHOTO).


 Uganda says its troops to remain in Somalia despite AU mission uncertainty


Uganda's defence minister said Friday its troops would remain in Somalia, despite growing uncertainty over the future of the African Union mission, under a pre-existing bilateral agreement.


Somalia has been battling Al-Shabaab terrorists for around two decades.


Uganda has roughly 4,500 troops in the country under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), the leading force supporting the Somali army, and a further 2,000 under a bilateral agreement, a military source told AFP.


However, the future of AUSSOM has been thrown into doubt after Washington announced it would end payments to the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS), which provides crucial logistics to the mission, by the year's end.


‘Arrangement to evolve’


On Friday, the Ugandan Defence Minister Kiryowa Kiwanuka told AFP that "Uganda is going to remain in Somalia", declining to give further details but indicating its presence would be outside AUSSOM.


"The arrangement that we are going to have on how we remain in Somalia is going to evolve, but... we already have a force there on bilateral arrangement with Somalia," he said.

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