MOGADISHU, March 6 (Reuters) - The first African Union peacekeepers arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday aboard a cargo plane, the AU said.

"The AU troops from Uganda have landed and some more are coming," Mohammed Ali Faum, the AU's special representative to Somalia, told Reuters at Mogadishu's international airport.

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