Somalia: Egypt to deploy troops to fight Shebabs

Somalia says Egypt has offered to deploy peacekeeping troops to the Horn of Africa country as part of a security partnership that is taking shape as the mandate of a long-standing African Union peacekeeping force comes to an end.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi attended a summit in the Eritrean capital, Asmara , on Thursday , where he pledged strong regional security cooperation with the leaders of Somalia and Eritrea .

Somali…