乌干达开始从索马里撤军：结束近20年部署，军方称2027年底前逐步撤出全部部队
摩加迪沙，11 月 2 日——乌干达 11 月 2 日星期一表示，已开始从索马里撤军，分阶段结束近 20年来帮助摩加迪沙打击与基地组织有关联的青年党武装的部署。
据路透社 11 月 2 日报道，乌干达人民国防军发言人克里斯·马盖齐在一份声明中说，乌干达已开始撤出根据与索马里联邦政府的双边安排部署的部队，“立即生效”；乌干达将逐步撤出在索马里的全部部队，包括在非洲联盟驻索马里支助与稳定特派团（AUSSOM）服役的部队，时间在2027 年底之前。路透社报道称，乌干达在 AUSSOM 旗下部署约 4500名军人，另有多少部队按双边安排部署尚不清楚。据英国广播公司报道，首批 109 名乌干达人民国防军士兵已于 10 月 30日星期五离开首都摩加迪沙；乌干达陆军司令穆胡齐·卡伊内鲁加巴上周宣布开始撤军并把安全责任移交给索马里部队，他写道：“正如我们承诺的那样，我们已开始从索马里撤出乌干达人民国防军。经过20 年的大量鲜血与牺牲，我们正在把安全移交给我们的索马里兄弟。”
乌干达是首个向非洲联盟驻索马里特派团（AMISOM）派兵的非洲国家。该特派团成立于 2007年，旨在帮助保护索马里过渡政府免受伊斯兰武装分子袭击。路透社报道称，AUSSOM 在 10 月 31日致联合国驻索马里支助办公室的一封信中警告，撤军可能使下谢贝利地区部分地带容易受到青年党袭击；该信经两名外交消息人士证实。索马里外交事务国务部长阿里·奥马尔对路透社表示，目前局势并不危急，但如果乌干达部队撤离，可能会造成问题。青年党近20 年来一直在与索马里政府作战，寻求夺取政权并推行其对伊斯兰教法的严格解释。
英国广播公司报道，首批 109 名乌干达士兵已于 10 月 30 日离开摩加迪沙；但 BBC 称，按双边安全安排部署的乌干达部队将留驻索马里、分阶段撤出预计 2027 年 8 月完成，与乌干达军方对路透社所说的 2027 年底前撤出全部部队不同，两家说法尚未获乌干达官方进一步澄清。
（来源：路透社）
Uganda Begins Withdrawing Troops From Somalia: Ending a Nearly 20-Year Deployment, Military Says All Forces Will Leave Gradually by the End of 2027
MOGADISHU, November 2 — Uganda said on Monday, November 2, that it has begun withdrawing its troops from Somalia as part of a phased drawdown that will end an almost two-decade deployment helping Mogadishu fight the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgency.
According to Reuters on November 2, Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) spokesperson Chris Magezi said in a statement that Uganda has begun drawing down troops deployed under bilateral arrangements with Somalia's Federal Government, "effective immediately," and will gradually withdraw all its forces from Somalia, including those serving under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), by the end of 2027. Reuters reported that Uganda has about 4,500 troops deployed under AUSSOM, though it is unclear how many additional forces are deployed under a separate bilateral arrangement. According to the BBC, a first contingent of 109 UPDF troops left the capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, October 30; Uganda's army chief, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, announced last week that the withdrawal had started and that security responsibility would pass to Somali forces, writing: "As we promised, we have started withdrawing UPDF from Somalia. After 20 years of a lot of blood and sacrifice, we are handing over security to our Somali brothers."
Uganda was the first African country to deploy troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), established in 2007 to help protect the country's transitional government from attacks by Islamist militants. Reuters reported that in an October 31 letter from AUSSOM to the UN Support Office in Somalia, verified by two diplomatic sources, the mission warned the withdrawal could leave parts of the Lower Shabelle region vulnerable to al Shabaab attacks. Somali State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Omar told Reuters that things are not dire now, but the withdrawal could create problems if Ugandan troops leave. Al Shabaab has waged an insurgency against Somalia's government for about two decades, seeking to seize power and impose its strict interpretation of Islamic law.
The BBC reported that a first contingent of 109 Ugandan troops left Mogadishu on October 30, but said Ugandan troops deployed under the bilateral security arrangement would remain in Somalia and put completion of a phased withdrawal in August 2027, a different account from the end-of-2027 full withdrawal the Ugandan military described to Reuters; Ugandan officials had not further clarified the discrepancy.
(Source: Reuters)
来源：路透社
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