ADDIS ABABA, March 11 (Reuters) - The African Union (AU) on Wednesday agreed to extend the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Somalia for another three months.
AU troops arrived in the war-torn country in 2007 shortly after an Islamist insurgency broke out. The chairman of the AU Peace and Security Council, Edouard Aho-Glele, said he hoped the United Nations would take over peacekeeping duties in Somalia at the end of that period.
"We have also asked the UN Security Council to lift the embargo on armaments to the country in favour of the transitional government of Somalia, to allow it to address the security issues," he told Reuters. The new government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, was formed in a U.N.-brokered deal to end 18 years of conflict in the failed Horn of Africa state. ..more..http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SNAA-7Q377S?OpenDocument&RSS20=18-P
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