Somali President Ahmed opposes Kenyan troop incursion

[xiinfaniin]

Somali President Ahmed opposes Kenyan troop incursion

 

 

Monday, October 24, 2011

 

Somalia's President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has said his transitional government is opposed to Kenya's military incursion into Somalia.

 

Just over a week ago Kenya sent soldiers over its border into Somalia to pursue militants from the Islamist al-Shabab group .

 

It blames the insurgents for a spate of recent kidnappings near the border, which al-Shabab denies.

 

Nairobi said the deployment was done with the Somali authorities' approval.

 

For more than two years, President Ahmed's weak UN-backed interim government has been battling al-Shabab, an al Qaeda-linked group which controls much of south and central Somalia.

 

His government relies on a 9,000-strong Africa Union force for its security in the capital, Mogadishu.

 

Air raids

 

Speaking to journalists at the scene of recent fighting in Mogadishu, Mr Ahmed said Kenyan support in terms of training and logistics was welcome but his government and the people of Somalia were opposed to the presence of the Kenyan army.

 

The BBC's East Africa correspondent, Will Ross, says his comments put the Kenyan government in a very difficult position.

 

It is possible that the Somali authorities have spoken out because they are opposed to the idea of Kenya helping to establish a semi-autonomous region in Somalia known as Jubaland, he says.

 

This is seen by some as the main aim of the Kenyan government's military incursion, our correspondent says.

 

Last week, a Somali general told the BBC his troops were working with Kenyan forces advancing from the border towards the port city of Kismayo.

 

On Sunday there were aerial bombardments on Kismayo, an economic stronghold of al-Shabab.

 

The Kenyan army told the BBC that a military base belonging to al-Shabab was hit, but the militants said no damage had been caused.

 

Kenyan army spokesman Maj Emmanuel Chirchir would not confirm whether Kenyan or other allied forces had carried out the raid.

 

He told AP news agency that the French navy had bombed the town of Kuda along the coast from Kismayo on Saturday night.

 

Last week, al-Shabab lost control of the coastal town of Ras Kamboni after attacks by the Kenyan navy and a local militia.

 

The French authorities said they had learnt last week that a Frenchwoman kidnapped from Kenya by Somali gunmen earlier in the month had died.

 

Other foreigners being held in Somalia include a British woman abducted from a coastal resort and a Kenyan driver and two Spanish aid workers seized from the Dadaab refugee camp near the Kenya-Somalia border.

 

Al-Shabab has threatened reprisal attacks in Kenya if the troops do not leave. Kenya's police chief says a grenade attack overnight in Nairobi which injured 12 people in a nightclub could not be linked to the militant group.

[xiinfaniin]

Sharif's reason to oppose

 

 

1- Kenya persisted on demarcation of Somalia's territorial waters

2- Kenya formed clannish militia and a brand new regional state to further its interest

3- Kenya unilaterally invaded the worst famine hit area in the region, putting civilian at risk

 

For those reasons, Kenya cannot be trusted , and must be opposed

[NGONGE]

^^ Yet it took him a full week to declare his opposition?

Did his PM oppose it too or was there an issue of crossed wires again?

[xiinfaniin]

^^Waryaa su'aalaha jooji

 

The president opposes the invasion. The deliberation might have been lengthy or rigorous but he finally made a decision.

[Jacaylbaro]

So that is why Raila is coming to Somaliland ??

[nuune]

Xiin, number one and two of your second post, that guy Farah Maalin, and senior Kenyan MPs and other supporters of the Azania project traveled to Mogadishu to get a signature or agreement, Sharif refused such thing and they came back, this happened as recent as last month, then it was decision time for Kenya, and they decided to go a head with their project under the cover of defeating Al Shabaab for the so called kidnapping.

 

Sharif didn't had the courage to say his opposition while he was meeting with defense minister Haji Yusuf and Foreign minister Mujunguluwaganlinguwala, now Sharif is trying to be nationalist, he is a disaster, disaster afar lugood leh waliba.

[xiinfaniin]

^^Nuune, I understand. The fact he refused is itself a sign of courage. His refusal could not come worst time for Kenya, for she is a knee deep in the Somali conflict toda, her troops exposed in the Jubba forest. Honest does not factor here, for we are talking about politics in its worst form.

 

 

Jacayle, you gotta practice and learn some courtesy waryaa. This thread is intended to be Secessionist concerns exclusive. It is about President's decisino to oppose Kenya's invasion.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

I am with Allsanaag here Sharif wants to stop the liberation of Jubbaland that's some logic explanation lol

 

On a serious note no leader would allow his country to be invaded

 

kudos to Ina Axmed

[xiinfaniin]

Tolow Abtigiis xaggee ka baxay

 

Waryaa come out and support the president

[Mayaani]

Maalintii wadanka lasoo galeyey talxiis buu Turki u aaday oo wax hadal ma oran. aqli lix saac ma haduu soo baraarugay in wadanka lasoo galay. War ninkaan yaa dadka ka hor wada.

[The Zack]

One word: Azania. That is the only thing that seems to bother shariiifka, otherwise he is fine with the incursion.

[AYOUB]

NGONGE;753470 wrote:

^^ Yet it took him

a full week

to declare his opposition?

Sh. Sharif's imaan went up a notch this week. Last week he could only oppose the Kikuyus by heart. This week the opposition is tongue in cheek.

[Abdul]

He is concerned only in keeping his position as a leader of tfg and continue staying at villa somalia beyond next year.

[Shinbir Majabe]

Waa laba arrin middood:

 

1-aade: in Madaxweyne Shariif uu la soo baxay siyaasado laba geesley ah, taasoo ah in uu jiro heshiis kala dhaxeeyo Kenya oo ogolaansho u siinaya iney soo gasho Soomaaliya si ay ula dagaalanto Shabaabka, dhanka kalena dhoolatus wadaninimo usoo bandhigaya Shacabka si aanan loogu darin buuugga madow ee taariikhda Soomaaliya.

 

2-aade: in Madaxweynuhu la qumanaan weysay soo gelidda ciidamada Kenya ee dhulka Soomaaliyeed ayadoo lagu marmarsiyoonayo Alshabaab, taasoo ka dhigeysa geesi wadani ah, aragtidaas oo ay dad badani hore u qabeen.

[xiinfaniin]

^^ :D

 

One can easily shoot down the first one; the second one is more plausible