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===UN Guard Unit, Somalia===
The UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) was established on 3 June 2013 by UN Security Council Resolution 2102 and works alongside AMISOM in Somalia. In 2014 it was decided the mission needed a guard unit to secure and protect UN personnel and their installations in Somalia. Uganda has provided this unit, initially of 410 personnel, since 2014. The United Nations Guard Unit, or UNGU, is based at Mogadishu Airport.<ref>'UN Guard Unit begins work in Mogadishu', Relief Web, 18 May 2014 https://reliefweb.int/report/somalia/un-guard-unit-begins-work-mogadishu {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044313/https://reliefweb.int/report/somalia/un-guard-unit-begins-work-mogadishu |date=6 March 2019 }}</ref><ref>'UN-UPDF Guard Units Sets Off For Somalia', Red Pepper, 17 April 2014, http://www.redpepper.co.ug/un-updf-guard-units-sets-off-for-somalia/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011145721/http://www.redpepper.co.ug/un-updf-guard-units-sets-off-for-somalia/ |date=11 October 2014 }}</ref><ref>'AMISOM commends Ugandan UN battalion after a tour of duty in Somalia', AMISOM News, 27 June 2016.</ref><ref>'Forces welcomed from Somalia', Ministry of Defence and Veteran's Affairs Uganda, 5 August 2016, [http://portal.defence.go.ug:10039/wps/portal/mod-home/MOD-latest-news/forces%20welcomed%20from%20somalia/!ut/p/a1/zZNNc9owEIb_CheORhvhD6k3TzpxIICT5qPgS0a2JVnEloytQCe_voLpKS2kmXKobju7-87us3pRhpYo02yrJLPKaFbv4yx8pimQixvA0_QariAmyWKC0wTfJ74rWLkCOPJieNf_EMUQJ0_RXTqjk8lNgL6jDGWFtq2t0Ko1nWX1oFeWD-HtuCyDQ5oaJ_sCeG1sxIDJbbQxNVXqJXiXrkAAI1IrbCTupT8EYbqC94MdrwvT8HIgOtMMetOwWrH9RC2TvOS9kvoQFapEqzyILmgQhB4pCur5DDOPUM48mvslIxQEHoe_eJxY-AOeBx6niU4_YupmiHU-JhJlHRe8493otXO3rKxtvwwdu91uNypdRhd8JM3oVQ7hT02V6S1a_laMVm7H6PgSEbr_JLTTggSfW3B8ZsHU_1dB8vj1EuLZ_HaKn75BsoBzTxh-WnD6F9bH3fxyLvd2sZWntDBoedJZrkWtN5ssdp432vIf7n_9J6Zvm8eGrMUsFHMb5EG7fXsQTfO8WHgsJzAO6u0s_gnVFt3v/dl5/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/ MOD Latest News]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043358/http://portal.defence.go.ug:10039/wps/portal/mod-home/MOD-latest-news/forces%20welcomed%20from%20somalia/!ut/p/a1/zZNNc9owEIb_CheORhvhD6k3TzpxIICT5qPgS0a2JVnEloytQCe_voLpKS2kmXKobju7-87us3pRhpYo02yrJLPKaFbv4yx8pimQixvA0_QariAmyWKC0wTfJ74rWLkCOPJieNf_EMUQJ0_RXTqjk8lNgL6jDGWFtq2t0Ko1nWX1oFeWD-HtuCyDQ5oaJ_sCeG1sxIDJbbQxNVXqJXiXrkAAI1IrbCTupT8EYbqC94MdrwvT8HIgOtMMetOwWrH9RC2TvOS9kvoQFapEqzyILmgQhB4pCur5DDOPUM48mvslIxQEHoe_eJxY-AOeBx6niU4_YupmiHU-JhJlHRe8493otXO3rKxtvwwdu91uNypdRhd8JM3oVQ7hT02V6S1a_laMVm7H6PgSEbr_JLTTggSfW3B8ZsHU_1dB8vj1EuLZ_HaKn75BsoBzTxh-WnD6F9bH3fxyLvd2sZWntDBoedJZrkWtN5ssdp432vIf7n_9J6Zvm8eGrMUsFHMb5EG7fXsQTfO8WHgsJzAO6u0s_gnVFt3v/dl5/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/ |date=6 March 2019 }}</ref><ref>'UN Guard Unit members complete one-year tour of duty in Somalia', UNSOM News (UN Assistance Mission in Somalia), 18 July 2017, https://unsom.unmissions.org/un-guard-unit-members-complete-one-year-tour-duty-somalia</ref>
* UNGU I (Lt. Col. Wycliffe Keita) – May 2014 to mid-2015
* UNGU II (Lt. Col. Richard Walekura) – mid-2015 to August 2016
* UNGU III (Lt. Col. Keith Katungi) – August 2016 to July 2017
* UNGU IV (Lt. Col. Mike Hyeroba) – July 2017 to mid-2018
* UNGU V (Lt. Col. Stuart Agaba), 529 personnel – mid-2018 to July 2019<ref>'New UN Guard Takes Over Duties', UPDF website, 26 July 2019, https://www.updf.go.ug/NEW_UNITED_NATIONS_GUARD_UNIT_TAKES_OVER_DUTIES.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818010425/https://www.updf.go.ug/NEW_UNITED_NATIONS_GUARD_UNIT_TAKES_OVER_DUTIES.php |date=18 August 2019 }}, accessed 18 August 2019.</ref><ref>'UPDF Troops Welcomed From Somalia', UPDF website, August 2019, https://www.updf.go.ug/UPDF_TROOPS_WELCOMED_FROM_SOMALIA.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818010406/https://www.updf.go.ug/UPDF_TROOPS_WELCOMED_FROM_SOMALIA.php |date=18 August 2019 }}, accessed 18 August 2019.</ref>
* UNGU VI (Lt. Col. Nathan Bainomugisha) - July 2019<ref>'D/ CDF Flags off UGABAG XXVIII & UNGU VI', UPDF website, 18 July 2019, https://www.updf.go.ug/Deputy_Chief_of_Defence_Forces_Flagsoff_UGABAG_XXVIII_and_UNGU_VI.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818010403/https://www.updf.go.ug/Deputy_Chief_of_Defence_Forces_Flagsoff_UGABAG_XXVIII_and_UNGU_VI.php |date=18 August 2019 }}, accessed 18 August 2019.</ref> to August 2020.
* UNGU VII (Lt. Col. Francis Odikiro), 600 personnel - deployed August 2020.<ref>'Uganda's 7th UN Guard Unit Flagged off to Somalia', UPDF website, August 2020, <https://www.updf.go.ug/Uganda_7th_UN_Guard_Unit_Flagged_off_to_Somalia.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926044739/https://updf.go.ug/Uganda_7th_UN_Guard_Unit_Flagged_off_to_Somalia.php |date=26 September 2020 }}> accessed 17 September 2020.</ref>
* UNGU VIII (Lt. Col. Peter Magungu, or Mabunga), 625 personnel - to February 2023.<ref>'UPDF Changes Command of the United Nations Guard Unit in Somalia', UPDF website, 27 February 2023, <https://www.updf.go.ug/missions/updf-changes-command-of-the-united-nations-guard-unit-in-somalia/></ref>
* UNGU IX (Lt. Col. Peter Okwi Omeja )- February 2023 to present.<ref>'UPDF Sends 2450 Strong UPDF Troops to Serve In Somalia Under UN And AU', UPDF website, 17 March 2023, <https://www.updf.go.ug/missions/updf-sends-2450-strong-updf-troops-to-serve-in-somalia-under-un-and-au/></ref>