MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed a Ugandan soldier working with the African Union peacekeeping mission in the Somali capital on Thursday, a spokesman said.
The AMISOM mission has just under 7,000 troops helping to bolster the lawless country's transitional government. The African Union has asked its member states to boost these numbers but only Uganda and Burundi have done so.
"We have lost one soldier after a roadside bomb blast struck our convoy," AMISOM spokesman Major Barigye Ba-hoku told Reuters.
"It was a barbaric attack by the anti-peace elements who don't like peace for Somalia."
The dead soldier was part of a group carrying out daily patrols near the port.
Somalia has had no effective central government for nearly two decades and the government controls no more than a few blocks of Mogadishu with the AU troops' help.
In a separate attack, two children were killed when a mortar fired in the direction of the parliament landed on a house. >>>
