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UN Chief: Somalia Could Still Fail
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warning that Somalia could slide back into being a failed state, called Tuesday on countries around the world to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force there with attack helicopters and armored troop carriers to take the fight to Al-Shabab militants in the field.

The U.N. chief called on U.N. members, including African countries not yet involved, to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force with attack helicopters, armored troop carries and other support to root out the al-Qaida-allied Al-Shabab.

"The political, security and development gains made so far in Somalia are still reversible," Ban said in a report to the Security Council. The al-Qaida-allied terrorist group Al-Shabab "continues to undermine security throughout the country, including in Mogadishu."

"Allowing Al-Shabab to continue its training and conduct terrorist activities from bases in Somalia will not only undermine peace in Somalia, but also that of the wider region," he said.

The AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia — known as AMISOM — is endorsed by the U.N. Security Council and is meant to pave the way for an eventual U.N. peacekeeping force. It is led by Ugandan officers, and also has large Kenya and Burundi contingents. It has more than 17,000 troops.

The United Nations has especially been stung since Al-Shabab attacked the U.N. compound in Mogadishu on June 19, killing a U.N. Development Program staffer, thee U.N. contractors, four Somali guards and at least six Somali bystanders. It was the first direct attack on a U.N. building in Somalia since 2008.

Since then, the international aid group Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of Somalia, citing increasing dangers there.

Somalia has long been plagued by cyclical drought and famine and decades of armed conflict. But in recent years it has been seen as making strides in security and governance, particularly since August 2011, when al-Qaida-aligned militants were forced out of Mogadishu.

Al-Shabab militants still control much of the country's south.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chie ... l-20148512

desperation

this is 4 days old news, and have been posted here by sahal, you and others as well. already debated subject.

what is the reason by posting it Again & Again?

I Am Not Mad, lakiin I Am Pretty Sure These Poor Victims & Their Relatives Are!!!
The Failure Of This Dawlad, Will Be Continued To Be Paid In Blood By HAG Citizens










Blasts in Somali capital kill 18: police

Saturday, September 07, 2013


At least 18 people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday when two blasts ripped through a busy parking lot next to a restaurant, police said.
"There were two heavy explosions at a parking lot near the National Theatre," police officer Mohamed Adan told AFP.

"At least 18 people were killed in the attack," said Mohamed Dahir, another police officer. An AFP reporter said he had seen 12 bodies at the scene of the attack.

Police and witnesses said the first blast was a car laden with explosives that was parked by a restaurant, the Village, close to the theatre.

"Minutes after the bomb went off, I saw severed flesh flying past," said Idris Yusuf, who was in the restaurant at the time of the attack and who sustained slight leg injuries.

Nearby buildings were destroyed by the blasts, he said, and passers-by came running over to help the victims.

The second blast, which followed minutes later, was a "suicide bomber who blew himself up in the crowd of civilians who rushed to the scene of the first blast," Ahmed Weli Said, a Somali government security official said.

The National Theatre re-opened in 2012 after two decades. Just weeks later, Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents struck, with a suicide bomber blowing herself up and killing two of the country's top sporting officials who were attending an event there.

Somalia's embattled government, selected in November in a UN-backed process, was hailed at the time by the international community as offering the best chance for peace in Somalia since the collapse of the central government in 1991.

A 17,700-strong African Union force fighting alongside the national army has forced Shebab fighters from several towns in the past two years.

Shebab fighters, who have claimed responsibility for a string of recent attacks, remain a potent force, however.

Their most brazen recent attack was a suicide commando assault on a fortified UN compound in the centre of Mogadishu in June that killed 11.

http://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2013/Sept/ ... olice.aspx