Welcoming Peace keeping Mission Troops to Mogadishu!

[Taako Man]

^ Sxb if you can't bother to read, I am not responsible for your illiteracy issues. The facts are simple Peace keepers are coming to warlords are disarming and the international community is fully supporting the only legitimate gov't in Somalia inshallah.

 

Remember you and Mystic are muslims INSHALLAH is FUNDAMENTAL when you MAKE A DUA'A.

[raadamiir]

The Ugandan ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) overnight approved a plan drawn up by Kampala’s Defence ministry for the deployment of troops in Somalia, as part of an African peace mission.

 

As reported by the Ugandan New Vision newspaper, the 237 NRM members of parliament, though approving the plan, expressed some reservations in regard to the mission.

 

The deployment still has to be approved by parliament, which plans to meet in the next two weeks to discuss it, but due to the large majority of seats held by the ruling party in parliament the definitive approval should be a mere formality.

 

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union is due to hold a special session today in Addis Ababa to discuss the deployment of a peace force in Somalia, which would replace the Ethiopian troops in support of the Somali interim government.

 

The nations so far willing to contribute soldiers to the contingent, aside from Uganda, include Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique and maybe Rwanda.

[raadamiir]

Uganda's Ruling Party Approves Peacekeepers for Somalia

By Cathy Majtenyi

Nairobi

19 January 2007

 

An official with Uganda's ruling party Friday said the party has approved a plan to send a contingent of Uganda peacekeeping troops into Somalia, saying that he is confident Ugandan parliament will approve the plan. The African Union is also meeting to discuss the issue of the Somali peacekeeping force. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi.

 

The director of information for the National Resistance Movement (NRM), Ofwono Opondo tells VOA President Yoweri Museveni's proposal to send 1,500 Ugandan soldiers into Somalia on a peacekeeping mission has been given the thumbs-up by his party.

 

Opondo says it is a sure bet that Uganda's parliament will also give its approval, expected by the end of the month.

 

"I think they will pass it because the NRM caucus is more than two-thirds of the members of parliament, and the resolution for parliamentary approval is simply a simple majority," he said. "So I can say, the approval for deployment is as good as done."

 

Opondo says the 237-member NRM caucus Thursday listened to presentations by Uganda's defense and security ministers on the need to get involved in stabilizing the volatile Horn of Africa country. The lawmakers then passed a resolution allowing the defense minister to present the matter to parliament by the end of the month.

 

Yet to be decided, he says, are how long the Ugandan soldiers will stay in Somalia, under whose mandate and direction they will fall, and who will pay for the mission.

 

The party spokesman explains why the members of parliament are in favor of such a peacekeeping force.

 

"We have been directly affected by the collapse of the state in Somalia, in southern Sudan, and Congo. People [are] using those stateless areas to gather arms and to train and infiltrate back into Uganda and terrorize Uganda generally," said Opondo. "So we think our involvement is contributing to our own security directly."

 

The National Resistance's decision comes as the African Union's Peace and Security Council was set to meet Friday to discuss the proposed 8,000 strong African peacekeeping force for Somalia.

 

The capital, Mogadishu, is particularly volatile following the recent ouster of the Islamic Courts Union. The transitional government is now attempting to disarm various warlords and militia.

 

Ethiopian troops stationed in Mogadishu and other areas have been backing the transitional government.

 

But those troops are supposed to be leaving soon. U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger this week expressed concern that, without a stabilization force, there may be a security vacuum in the Horn of Africa nation.

 

A number of African countries have been approached, including Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Angola, and South Africa, but only Uganda has so far offered to contribute to the force.

 

Since civil war broke out in 1991, militias loyal to clan and sub-clan-based factions have controlled different parts of the country, with no central authority to provide law and order and even basic services to the population.

 

A transitional Somali parliament was formed in Kenya more than two years ago following a peace process.

[Fabregas]

Peackeepers are always followed by allegations of rape and prostitution good luck..........

[Captain Xalane]

Eight battalions will roughly make up around two Brigades,however,together with the somalian national troops,the boys are in a good shape.Redsea,watch them in action,only then will u see their capabilities,otherwise naac naacda jooji.

[RedSea]

^2 battallions,how many where the Americans+italy+Belgium,Canada,French in 1993?

 

and what was the end result.Even they couldnt' do a thing,what makes you think starving 8,000 Au forces will do any better?

 

Taako man,you play around too much.laakin iska ciyaar ciyaal waxba ma dhaantide.

[Wisdom_Seeker]

Red these TFG supporters have mastered insanity in its fullest form. Calling a Warlord government a legitimate one just proves my pervious comment.

[Fabregas]

Meesha waa lagu dhamaadayee, wixii la shegayey baa la keeno, misee somalidaa baa la isku dawanaya.........