By IRNA,
Berlin : Germany is said to be training under-age Somalian soldiers, the daily Frankfurter Rundschau reported in its Thursday edition.
Responding to a German parliamentary inquiry by the opposition party The Left, the foreign ministry said it could not rule out that Somalian minors were also instructed by German military trainers.
Around 20 German soldiers are training some 2000 Somalian troops in Uganda as part of an European Union-led military mission.
Meanwhile, the German foreign ministry rejected reports about the use of children soldiers by the transitional Somalian government.
Somalia’s president had ordered last month an investigation into reports that the Somali army is recruiting children in its fight against rebel groups.
Human rights groups and media outlets have been reporting about the existence of child soldiers in Somalia for years.