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Uganda ready to increase African Union troops in Somalia

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Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, said his country can raise the entire 20,000 troop force that the African Union says is needed to defeat Somalia's Islamist rebels and pacify the country. Earlier, Somalia's al-Qaeda-allied al Shabaab militia claimed responsibility for twin bomb blasts on July 11 that killed 79 people watching the World Cup final in Uganda's capital Kampala.

Museveni also asked the EU to deploy air power to control Somali airspace and curtail the flow of arms from al-Qaeda and other foreign sponsors of rebels in Somalia.