Prime Minister holds first meeting with UN Special Representative Nicholas Kay
Mogadishu (tf.sf) Speaking at a press conference on Saturday in Mogadishu shortly after meeting with the UN envoy to Somalia, Somalia’s new Premier Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed has vowed that the country’s security fiorces will go onto a massive assault against Al Shabab bases in the southern and central Somalia, terror free somalia reports.
“Our security forces in partnership with AMISOM continue to expand their area of operations and liberate further towns from Al Shabaab control with the tempo of operations set to increase in the coming months,” the Prime Minister said in his statement.
He said that the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) supported by the United Nations will be the biggest partner in liberating new areas of the country and that will lead to opening new hope to the people of Somalia who were caught in hostage by the militant groups controlling much of the country’s southern portion.
“We are in agreement that it is crucial that security and military operations are in coordination with the expansion of governance and local administrations on the ground in liberated towns and regions.” Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed added.
Last week President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has said that the new year will the year of liberating the regions of the country from the extremists and the militants linked to Al Qaeda.
The President’s came days before Al Shabab planned double suicide attacks lost the lives of more than 10 security forces including two junior police officers in the capital, Mogadishu.
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