Ugandan peacekeepers killed in jihadist attack in Somalia

In this file photo taken on 11 November, 2021, a soldier serving in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) jumps off a military vehicle near the scene of a suicide explosion in Mogadishu. REUTERS - FEISAL OMAR

Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks by Al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country.

"We discovered the lifeless bodies of 54 fallen soldiers, including a commander," Museveni said in a Twitter post late Saturday.