Arab League donates $1 million to AU in Somalia

[Jacaylbaro]

CAIRO, June 10 (Reuters) - The Arab League said on Sunday it had donated $1 million to support African Union (AU) forces in war-ravaged Somalia, an Arab League member state.

 

"This sum is the first phase," Samir Hosni, who deals with African affairs at the league, said. "This amount is from the Arab League and not the Arab countries."

 

Hosni said the Cairo-based organisation had already sent $15 million to support the struggling African Union forces in Darfur, and $1 million to AU peacekeeping forces to monitor elections in the Comoros Islands.

 

Ethiopian and Somali interim government troops have shouldered most of the financial burden of fighting the Somali insurgency which has raged since they took control of the capital Mogadishu in late December.

 

A number of African countries have pledged troops to the envisioned 8,000-strong AU force, but so far only Uganda has sent peacekeepers into Somalia.

 

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi called on the U.N. Security Council on Saturday to finance the African Union peacekeeping forces in Somalia so that Ethiopian troops could withdraw.

[Allamagan]

Good news, so now Geedi can buy a million dollar yatch and Yey have a large sum of money at his disposal to pribe more waxmagarayaal...

[Abwaan]

Originally posted by Allamagan:

Good news, so now Geedi can buy a million dollar yatch and Yey have a large sum of money at his disposal to pribe more waxmagarayaal...

runtaa sxb.

[Jacaylbaro]

There is a reason why they are giving this money ,,,,, let's look at it deeply bal

 

or may be way quusteen and they finally want to support the TFG by force ,,,

[rudy-Diiriye]

this has a fowl smell! arabs helping christians ethos..after all no blk azz somali is gonna see a penny of its except the tfg controlled boyz.

 

i believe the arabs where arm twisted by the state dept... thanks god for usaa--united states of american arabs.