SOMALIA: EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS UNDER THE UNITED NATIONS BANNER IN SOMALIA LEAVE MOGADISHU AS UN EVACUATION ENTERS ITS FINAL STAGE

Record ID: 337677

  • Title: SOMALIA: EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS UNDER THE UNITED NATIONS BANNER IN SOMALIA LEAVE MOGADISHU AS UN EVACUATION ENTERS ITS FINAL STAGE
  • Date: 20th February 1995
  • Summary: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (FEBRUARY 20, 1995)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV AIRCRAFT ON RUNWAY 0.05 2. SV UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) SOLDIERS LOADING BAGGAGE ONTO AIRCRAFT (5 SHOTS) 0.24 3. SV EGYPTIAN U.N. TROOPS LINED-UP ON RUNWAY/ BOARDING AIRCRAFT (6 SHOTS) 0.49 4. SV EGYPTIAN U.N. TROOPS TAKING THEIR SEATS INSIDE AIRCRAFT (3 SHOTS) 1.06 5. SV EGYPTIAN U.N. TROOPS BOARDING AIRCRAFT (2 SHOTS) 1.21 6. SV EGYPTIAN OFFICER SAYING GOODBYE TO SOMALI AND PAKISTANI 7. SV PAKISTANI U.N. SOLDIER STRUGGLING WITH YOUNG SOMALI BOY/ HITTING AND KICKING THE BOY 1.47 8. SV U.N. SOLDIERS SIGNALLING TO AIRCRAFT 1.56 9. SV AIRCRAFT TAXIING ON RUNWAY/ TAKING OFF (3 SHOTS) 2.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 7th March 1995 12:00
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  • Location: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
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  • Country: Somalia
  • Reuters ID: LVADMEPMJ135CQ4XSCZH0CIMWRTS
  • Story Text: More than 300 Egyptian soldiers under the United Nations (U.N.) banner in Somalia left the war-ravaged capital Mogadishu on Monday (February 20) as the U.N. evacuation entered its final stage.

    The "blue helmets", many of whom had served in Mogadishu for more than a year, boarded a military aircraft bound for Cairo.

    The Egyptian soldiers were given a military send-off by Pakistani troops who will remain in Mogadishu preparing the ground for the departure of troops and their hardware later this month.

    The U.N. failed to broker peace between Somalia's clan factions in a bloody and expensive two-year mission and is due to evacuate its remaining troops from Mogadishu by the first week of March.

    More than 130 U.N. peacekeepers have been killed in the operation.


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