Somalia:Two thousand of foreigners are fighting against the government, minister

ADDIS ABABA (Mareeg)—Somalia’s deputy prime minister and finance minister Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden said Tuesday that thousand foreign fighters were fighting against his fragile government in Somalia.





Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden who reached in Addis Ababa early this week said he went there to get military support from IGAD countries and the African Union.





The speaker of the Somali parliament Sheik Aden Mohamed Nor demanded from neighboring countries to send their military to Somalia last Saturday.





“al Shabaab declared that it was getting support from al Qaeda and al Qaeda has also admitted that it was involved in the fighting in Somalia so the government has a right to seek help from IGAD and the African Union countries,” said Sharif Hassan, the Somali deputy prime minister and finance minister.





“The government tried to avoid fighting but al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam groups rejected our offer and started the fighting,” the minister added.





Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden said his government would demand from the African leaders meeting in Tripoli, Libya to change the mandate of the African troops in Mogadishu known as AMISOM from peace keepers to peace makers.





By Ahmednor Mohamed Farah

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