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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The advance team of an African peacekeeping force to Somalia arrived unannounced in the country on Thursday, a senior police officer said. A Ugandan military spokesman, however, denied that any troops were in Somalia.
Thirty Ugandan troops arrived in a military plane Thursday morning, according to Adan Biid Ahmed, the police chief of the southern town of Baidoa where the transitional parliament sits.
"This is the first batch of African peacekeepers to be deployed in Somalia," Ahmed told The Associated Press on the phone from Baidoa.
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