Somalia: 'TFG Trained Soldiers Join Insurgency,' Says Puntland Minister

18 January 2011

A Cabinet minister in Somalia's Puntland government has stated that a military training program for the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is producing soldiers 'who join the insurgency', Radio Garowe reports.

Mr. Daud Mohamed Omar, Puntland's Planning and International Cooperation Minister, told the BBC Somali Service during a Tuesday interview that the international community's funding of military training for TFG soldiers in countries like Uganda and Djibouti is "ineffective".

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