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STAGE MANAGED? An Al Shabaab fighter keeps guard during the demonstration on Monday.
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Hundreds of Somalis in Mogadishu on Monday took to the streets to protest against the continued presence of foreign forces, but an Africa Union spokesman says the demonstration was “stage-managed”.
“The Al Shabaab organised those demonstrators to show the world that Mogadishu is melting, which is not the case,” Maj. Barigye Ba-Hoku, the AMISOM spokesman, said by phone from Somalia. He added: “They are using it as a means of forced recruitment; they have had a lot of losses recently. Even [yesterday], they were fighting among themselves.”
Anti-government demonstrators, among them women dressed in hijabs (full-body attire that covers the face) and brandishing AK-47 rifles, marched through the streets denouncing Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s Transitional Federal Government and its international backers. “AMISOM killed my mummy” and “AMISOM get out of our country,” read some of the placards, according to AFP.
Moments later, on Monday, leaders of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development, a regional bloc sitting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia approved immediate deployment of additional 2,000 AU troops in the city, to bring the continental force to around 8,300.
The summit - which President Museveni, leader of Uganda that contributes majority AU troops - resolved to work with the United Nations to get some 20,000 more peacekeepers on the ground across Somalia. No timeline was given for the planned deployment.
The current AMISOM force mainly protects state installations – the presidential palace, air and sea ports as well as highways to the city - and keeps Sheikh Ahmed’s government from collapsing to a resurgent Al Shabaab. Two of more than 4,000 Ugandan soldiers, deployed there under the African Union mandate to keep watch over elusive peace, were killed last week and their tank set alight by Al Shabaab.
Worsening conflict
In yesterday’s interview, Maj. Ba-Hoku said: “This conflict will not be resolved by the number of troops but the willingness of the Somalis to dialogue over their problems --- the troops will only act as a catalyst to enable that process succeed.” He said there is a pressing need to create a “formula to convince” the Somali people that they can resolve their differences amicably.
There has been no functional government in Somalia since 1991 and Ethiopian forces in 2006 toppled the relatively commanding Union of Islamic Courts, of which President Sheikh Ahmed was a top moderate official.
In yesterday’s interview, Maj. Ba-Hoku said: “This conflict will not be resolved by the number of troops but the willingness of the Somalis to dialogue over their problems --- the troops will only act as a catalyst to enable that process succeed.” He said there is a pressing need to create a “formula to convince” the Somali people that they can resolve their differences amicably.
There has been no functional government in Somalia since 1991 and Ethiopian forces in 2006 toppled the relatively commanding Union of Islamic Courts, of which President Sheikh Ahmed was a top moderate official.
Since their ouster, the security situation there worsened and Al Shabaab, a self-declared Al Qaeda affiliate, and other radical military groups now control much of the country, limiting the UN-backed government to oversee parts of Mogadishu.
It emerged last evening that Monday’s demonstrators the Al Shabaab reportedly recruited are being kept in three different locations, one being the National Stadium in the city...
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the reality in somalia Somalis protest against al-Qaida linked militants,Hundreds protest against Al-Shabaab in Somalia
We have seen propaganda before
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