{"id":7711,"date":"2023-11-12T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ugandan-army-officers-sacked-for-cowardice-in-attack-on-somalias-bulo-marer-atmis-base\/12\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:40:52","slug":"ugandan-army-officers-sacked-for-cowardice-in-attack-on-somalias-bulo-marer-atmis-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ugandan-army-officers-sacked-for-cowardice-in-attack-on-somalias-bulo-marer-atmis-base\/12\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan army officers sacked for cowardice in attack on Somalia&#8217;s Bulo Marer Atmis base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Ugandan military court has found two officers guilty of cowardice as Islamist fighters stormed an African Union base in Somalia in May.<\/p>\n<p>Majors Zadock Abor and John Oluka ran away after they came under attack by al-Shabab in Bulo Marer, south of the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>At least 50 Ugandan soldiers were killed, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda is part of the African Union force helping Somalia&#8217;s government fight al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Bulo Marer was one of the deadliest for the African Union force, Atmis, since it launched a new offensive against al-Shabab last year.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda&#8217;s president, <span class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill rapid-nonanchor-lt\" data-entity-id=\"Yoweri_Museveni\" data-ylk=\"cid:Yoweri_Museveni;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Yoweri%20Museveni\" data-ylk=\"slk:Yoweri Museveni;elm:context_link;itc:0\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Yoweri Museveni<\/a><\/span>, criticised his military for its response.<\/p>\n<p>The Ugandan military court sitting in Mogadishu heard that the officers had been given warning of an impending attack but failed to act to deter it.<\/p>\n<p>As al-Shabab gunmen stormed the base, they failed to rally their troops and instead ran away to another base.<\/p>\n<p>Both officers have been dismissed from the army.<\/p>\n<p>Four non-commissioned officers were also found guilty of failing to protect military equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The 19,000-strong African Union force was sent to Somalia in 2007 and helped force al-Shabab out of many cities.<\/p>\n<p>It is scheduled to transfer security responsibilities to Somalia&#8217;s government forces and leave the country next year.<\/p>\n<p>However, the offensive against al-Shabab has stalled and the group still controls many rural parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>An earlier version of this story misidentified one of the officers involved. This has been corrected.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>More about Somalia from the BBC:<\/h3>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ugandan-army-officers-sacked-cowardice-114700192.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan military court has found two officers guilty of cowardice as Islamist fighters stormed an African Union base in Somalia in<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ugandan-army-officers-sacked-for-cowardice-in-attack-on-somalias-bulo-marer-atmis-base\/12\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}