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Somalia: First African Peacekeeping Contingents Will Reach Country in Three Days

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Somalia: First African Peacekeeping Contingents Will Reach Country in Three Days, the Government Says

 

 

January 23, 2007

Posted to the web January 23, 2007

 

Aweys Osman Yusuf

Mogadishu

 

The Somali government has revealed today that the first peacekeeping forces from Uganda, Malawi and Nigeria would arrive in Somalia in days.

 

Hussein Mohammed Farah Aided, Somalia's deputy prime minister, has told journalists that within the three days to come, the Africa peacekeepers would reach the country.

 

 

His remarks came as at least 50 military trucks carrying Ethiopian soldiers supported by artillery and other types of weaponry left the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday morning. The top Ethiopian General, Seum Hagoss, said the departure of Ethiopian troops started today. "Starting today, we are leaving", he said.

 

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Aided mentioned that three other countries, including Libya, were planning to send their troops to Somalia. South Africa is one of the countries contemplating to send troops to Somalia for the peacekeeping mission.

 

The Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and having separate meetings with the African Union heads, who are meeting in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa Tuesday for discussions over speedy troop deployment to Somalia, Aided said.

 

The Ethiopian departure from Somalia came after Ethiopian prime minister Males Zenawi stated early last week that his government was conclusive to withdraw the thousands of Ethiopian troops from war-torn country.

 

 

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Originally posted by Che-Guevara:

Who takes Aidid Jr seriously?

When the News is favorable the cheerleaders take him seriously. When the news is unfavourable the cheerleaders denounce and belittle him[& ask for his removal]Yaah Che? smile.gif

 

These kind of cheerleaders are reffered to as Unprincipled flipfloping girlie men. icon_razz.gif

 

Swiftboat the hell outta these goons mann ;)

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RedSea   

^lol....Taako Man takes everything seriously regardless of it having any credentials,just like he believes in the TFG,which is big farce.

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"These kind of cheerleaders are reffered to as Unprincipled flipfloping girlie men."

 

 

Same guys that were lambasting Xamar warlords six months earlier are now singing their praises. I know they are very principled bunch.

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Talking about taking people seriously

 

"The heroic army of Ethiopia supported the transitional government to restore normality to the country after 16 years of violence," Somali deputy Prime Minister Hussein Mohamed Aidid told the AFP news agency.

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I assume he forgot the disclaimer about not being responsible for any of it ..

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