Top UN official: Without global support, Somalia will fall to opposition

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UNITED NATIONS, July 9 (Xinhua) - If the international community allows Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) -- forged in a process of consensus -- to fail, the poverty-stricken Horn of Africa nation will be taken over by opposition groups employing tactics of coercion and intimidation, the top United Nations political official cautioned here Thursday.

 

Last year's UN-facilitated Djibouti Agreement ended the conflict between the TFG and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, with President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed taking office in January and a new government being formed in February.

 

"The choice before us is a stark one: either we help the Somali people overcome the current attempt to thwart efforts towards peace or we allow the new unity Government based on consensus and the Djibouti Accords to fall to a radical armed opposition," Lynn Pascoe, UN under-secretary-gene ral for political affairs, told an open meeting of the Security Council.

 

The TFG is being challenged by insurgent forces, backed by foreign fighters, but "strives to maintain cohesion despite the obvious difficulties faced by any government of national unity," he said.

 

It is reaching out to opposition forces and working to broaden its support among community, religious and civil society leaders, while trying to project a moderate vision of Islam in line with Somali culture, he said.

 

 

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Muqdisho:Xoogaga Al-Shabaab oo qabsaday degmadi ugu dambeysay ee G/Sh/Dhexe

10. juli 2009

 

 

Muqdisho(AllPuntland )-Xoogaga hubeysan ee Al-Shabaab ayaa gacanta ku dhigay degmadi ugu dambeysay ee G/Sh/Dhexe oo ah Degmada Aadan Yabaal ee Gobolka Sh/dhexe , waxaana xalay xoogaggooda ay u galeen qaab nabad ah oo aanay wax dhiig ah ku daadan.

 

Xoogaga Al-Shabaab ayaa saraakil ka tirsan waxaa laga soo xigtay in galitaankooda Aadan Yabaal ay ka dambeysay markii shacabka deeganadaa ay u yeeteen .

 

Xoogagan Al-Shabab ayaa hada maamula inta badan K/Soomaliya marka laga reebo gobolada Galguduud iyo Hiiraan oo ay degmooyin yar ka joogaan , waxaana la wareegitaankood uu imaanayaa xili ay ka socdaanG /Sh/Dhexe dagaalo ku dhufoo ka carar ah oo ay ku hayaan ciidamadi maxaakimta ee looga itaal sheegtay gacan ku heynta gobolkaas.

 

Saraakisha maxaakimta ee laga qabsaday G/Sh/Dhexe ayaa marar badan ku celiyey in ay weerari doonaan gobolka shabeelaha dhexe dibna ay ula wareegi doonaan.

 

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