Ex-Somali president Abdikasim: Ethiopia dreams of splitting up Somalia
By Aweys Osman Yusuf Mogadishu
22, August. 06 ( Sh.M.Network)
Former Somalian president Abdikasim Salad Hassan held a press conference at his headquarter today condemning Ethiopia for managing and controlling the Somali interim government led by president Abdulahi Yusuf.
Abdi-kasim Salad, Ex-Somali President
He praised the Islamists’ seizure over the capital Mogadishu.
“ The Union of Islamic Courts have been formed in the general interest of the Somali people and it exists because of them”, said Abdikasim, adding that the Islamists would save the Somali people.
Abdikasim blamed Ethiopia for violating IGAD decisions that called not to give safe heaven to the defeated Mogadshu warlords.
“The Somali government which was supposed to honestly serve the Somali population has chosen to be puppet of Ethiopia that desperately requires to disintegrate Somalia”, Abdikasim, former Somali president said.
This is the first time Abdikasim Salad Hassan has spoken about the issues of Somalia since the Union of Islamic Courts overpowered former tribal warlords.
He urged the Islamists to welcome the international community that is interested in the unity of Somalis, including the United States, Europeans and Arabs.
Shabelle Media Network Somalia
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Mogadishu’s International seaport reopens for the first time after 11 years
By: Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 23, August. 06 ( Sh.M.Network) Mogadishu’s International l seaport has officially been opened for the first time after so eleven years of closure.
Union of Islamic Courts second assistant chief Sheik Abdulkadir Ali Omar, accompanied by the Isklamist finance manager Abdulkadir Abokar Omar Addan and marine transport manager Sh. Mohammed Kahiye, stated that Mogadishu’s main port is formally open.
Mogadishu’s main port has been shut down since UNOSOM, the UN & US forces, departed from Somalia in 1995 after failure of forming an administration.
Omar Afdoje, an Islamist engineer, made an estimation of one million dollars that, he said, would cost rebuilding the vastly devastated port.
A big celebration for the opening of the seaport is anticipated on Thursday.
Many Mogadishu residents endorsed the opening of the port, while many said they had been waiting for the news for a long time.
Elma’am, an informal seaport, in north Mogadishu has been the only port business people have been importing their commodities.
Reliable sources close to the Islmaists says that the newly opened port would be the only one that Somali business people might legitimately use. This may mean that Elma’an seaport will be out of use.
After UNOSOM many attempts of putting the port into use had failed after Mogadishu’s once most powerful tribal warlords could not compromise over the revenue and which ship was to be taxed of the seaport.
It is hoped that the port would alleviate the inflation of all commodities in Mogadishu.
Shabelle Media Network Somalia
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