NASSIR Posted November 10, 2007 Nov 09, 2007 (UN News Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The senior United Nations envoy to Somalia is holding talks in Nairobi with the country's President and other political leaders as UN staff report that worsening humanitarian conditions inside the capital, Mogadishu. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf arrived in the Kenyan capital yesterday for the talks with the Secretary-General's Special Representative, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, and other UN officials, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters today. Mr. Ould-Abdallah and Mr. Yusuf will focus on the ongoing selection process for Somalia's next prime minister during their discussions, according to the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS). Earlier today the Special Representative also met with Ali Mahdi Mohammed, the Chairman of Somalia's National Reconciliation Congress. The Nairobi meetings are taking place as the killings, violence and displacement continue across Mogadishu amid fighting between the insurgents and Ethiopian troops, which are in Somalia to support the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG). Mr. Haq said some 50 civilians were killed and another 30 wounded during the past 24 hours in the capital, and as many as 114,000 residents of Mogadishu have been forced to flee their homes in recent weeks. In total, an estimated 850,000 Somali civilians have been displaced this year by the intermittent but deadly violence across the Horn of Africa country. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NASSIR Posted November 10, 2007 The Somali Prime Minister's resignation deepens the political crisis and security The Prime Minister of the TFG Ali Mohamed Gedi has submitted his resignation letter to President, The Abdullahi Yusuf, last week after long time of feud between them, in which deepening the political crisis and security that the country has witnessed in the civil war continued since 16 years. At a time, when Gedi submit his resignation from his post which had been occupied since 2004, hundreds of civilians continued to flee from the Somali capital resulted by continues fighting between the rebels and the government forces allied with the Ethiopian arms. Mr. Gedi has tendered his letter of resignation to the Somali President during a meeting in Baidoa (250 km north-west of Mogadishu), the head-quarter of the transitional parliament. This resignation came after the Present and some countries those are interesting in Somalia, agreed to end the political chaos. The political dispute between the President and Prime Minster has jeopardized and paralyzed the government’s work for several weeks. The President Abdullahi Yusuf has put a pressure on the Parliament for a vote against Gedi, accusing him not to shoulder his responsibilities and not to end the violence in Mogadishu. And also he (the prime Minster) was behind entering the Ethiopian army in the country against Islamic courts in December 2006. The chaos engulfed Mogadishu for the last two weeks and still continues in which prompted civilians to flee, with Ethiopian soldiers opened fire on demonstrators, resulting in the death of three of them. Witnesses reported that the Somali government forces and Islamic rebels fought clashes in broad daylight in the south of the city for the consecutive days. Many people believed that if the Gedi’s resignation is over, the situation of the Capital get better, but this happen reversely, and the violence is continuing between two sides. Therefore we can say that the Prime Minster’s resignation deepens the political, security and humanitarian crisis. Written By: Saacid Nageeye. He can be reached at: sn_xa@hotmail.com Source: Allgedo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
