Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
15 October 2009
About 500 of the Somali transitional government troops have been wrapped up training in Djibouti, the capital of Djibouti, officials said on Thurday.
Well decorated ceremony designed for the conclusion of Somali government soldiers was held in Djibouti early on Thursday morning where more officials from Somali and Djibouti attended and talked more in the occasion.
Reports say that the Djiboutian national army and French forces had concluded the military training for the transitional government troops which continued for months in Djibouti especially the high Academic of Al-haji Hassan, a military centre in Djibouti which named the former Djiboutian president Al-haji.
There had been more officials including Djiboutian and Somalis like Dileyte Mohamed Dileyte, the prime minister of Djibouti, the deputy chief of army of the TFG and Abdirahman Mohamed Hirabe, an official from the Somali embassy in Djibouti who were all present at the ceremony where the training completed for the Somali soldiers.
Reports from Djibouti say that the UN was playing an important role for the rebuilding the security forces of the transitional government which it had already established and the troops who took the military training will return to the home country for the following.
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