Mogadishu (Sunatimes) The first batch of Djiboutian troops on Tuesday arrived in Mogadishu to boost AU peacekeeping force in the war-torn capital.

A military plane carrying 200 Djiboutian personnel landed at Adan Adde International Airport on Tuesday. Security has been tightened in and around the airport before their arrival.

AMISOM officials received the Djiboutian troops into the country.

Djibouti has earlier announced it plans to send 850 soldiers to anarchic Somali to join the AU mission in the country.

Djiboutian military chief Zakariye Sheikh Ibrahim arrived in Mogadishu early this week to lay ground for the arrival in his troops in Somalia.

The tinny Horn of African nation becomes the third African country to send its troops into Somalia to serve the AU mission in the country.

The AU has 9,000 troops in Somalia to back the interim government in efforts to restore law and order in chaotic Somalia.

The AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has been appealing for more troops so that it can hold on to territory captured from Al-Shabaab.

Just recently, neighbouring Kenya announced that it military will be re-hated to join the African Union peacekeeping force in Mogadishu after parliament approves it.

Kenyan Defence Minister Yussuf Hajji tabled in parliament a motion seeking MPs to approve Kenyan effort to have its military join the African Union Mission in Somalia, a motion that sailed through the floor.

Kenya said that IGAD and the African Union have requested its military integrated into AMISOM during the recent extra ordinary session.

Kenyan troops pushed across the border with Somalia into rebel held territory in the south last October, following a string of attacks by Somali gunmen on Kenyan soil.

Nairobi blames Al-Shabaab rebel group for these attacks on its security forces and tourists inside Kenya, and the kidnap of two Spanish aid workers from Dadaab, an accusation Al-Shabaab denied.

By Fadumo Farah