Somalia's speaker says needs urgent military help,Somalia begs for help as militants attack capital

MOGADISHU, June 20 (Reuters - Somalia's neighbours should send troops to help its embattled government within the next 24 hours, parliament speaker Sheikh Aden Mohamed Madobe said on Saturday. Two legislators have been killed in the last two days in intensified fighting between government forces and hardline Islamists trying to oust the Horn of Africa nation's leadership.
Al Shaabab insurgents stepped up an offensive against Somalia's government last month and on Thursday killed the country's security minister and at least 30 other people in a suicide car bomb attack.] They also killed an MP in northern Mogadishu on Friday.
"We are asking the world and neighbouring countries to intervene in Somalia's situation immediately," Madobe told a parliament meeting urgently convened as the opposition fighters advanced toward the presidential palace. "We want them to come here within 24 hours," he said...more..http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LK567723.htm
Somalia begs for help as militants attack capital
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