Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces expresses confidence in Somalia’s stabilisation efforts, urges the media to focus on success stories.

Gen Katumba Wamala, CDF of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces “People still have the old Somalia in minds, the Somalia of 2007 when we went in.  When we had one airline operating in Somalia. It was operating twice a week.

Today, I understand the airport is lacking space… but this is not being communicated or if it is being communicated as somebody said it is not making the best story. Let us find a way we can aggressively communicate these positive developments to encourage people to know that Somalia is now open and moving from what it was before.”