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Somalia: Elders and clerics condemn foreign minister’s remarks
MOGADISHU (Mareeg) ---Somali clerics and elders have strongly condemned the remarks by Somalia’s foreign minister Mohamed Abdulahi Omaar on Saturday.
Omaar said during speech before the Security Council on Friday, it was urgent that extra battalions from Uganda and Burundi to be sent to Somalia to bring the AMISOM peacekeepers closer to their target strength of 8,000 and that the domestic joint security force be funded and equipped.
Abdulahi Hassan Abukar known as Abdulahi Dhere, a spokesman for the Hawiye Clan Elders said the speech by the foreign minister was not the interest of the Somali people and called for the minister to rescind it. Abdulahi Dhere said they will fight with any foreign troops.
Sheik Ahmed Abdi Dhisow a leading member of Somali clerics also condemned and described the demand as a regrettable one.
The decision by Somalia’s foreign minister Mohamed Abdulahi Omaar angered many Somalis who live in the capital and still remember the difficulties they during the two-year occupation of the Ethiopian troops and the mortar shelling by the AMISOM troops in Mogadishu.
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