MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s cabinet declared a state of emergency yesterday and the parliament speaker asked neighbouring countries to send troops to help the government within the next 24 hours as fighting intensified in the capital.
Two legislators have been killed in the last two days in worsening violence between government forces and hardline Islamists trying to oust the Horn of Africa nation’s leadership.
Al Shaabab insurgents stepped up an offensive against Somalia’s government last month and on Thursday killed the country’s security minister and at least 30 other people in a suicide car bomb attack.
They also killed an MP in northern Mogadishu on Friday.
“Today the Somali cabinet has unanimously declared that the country is in a state of emergency,” a cabinet statement said.
Parliament speaker Sheikh Aden Mohamed Madobe had earlier asked neighbouring countries to step in militarily to rescue the struggling government.
Residents in the central areas of the Horn of Africa country reported yesterday seeing Ethiopian troops in Somalia.
“We are asking the world and neighbouring countries to intervene in Somalia’s situation immediately,” Madobe told a parliament meeting convened as the opposition fighters advanced towards the presidential palace.
“We want them to come here within 24 hours,” he said.
“We’ve been forced to make this request because of the escalating violence. Those fighting the government are being led by a (former) Pakistani army general, they are burning the flag and killing people,” Madobe said.
Somalia the wild west will be conquered only by Bharat Jagdeo.
Who in their right minds would go to the aid of Somalia? In 1992 the US Army heeding a similar call went into Somalia on a humanitarian relief operation to save the many starving citizens, and were later turned upon.Many US servicemen were killed and their bodies mutilated and dragged through the streets. There is an old saying, “Never bite the hands that feed you.” or another..”Once does not go over the hill and shout farewell.”
ask dem bajans fuh help or better yet ask de gdf fuh sen troops since dem doin nothin in guyana…
Send some troops from Guyana they wasting time deh, getting paid to do nutting
Where is the OAU now? The Organization Of African Unity?What is the AFRICAN UNION doing? When not chastizing whites (as a scapegoat naturally) for all of Africa’s problems, they cannot solve their own self made ones.Rudyard Kipling was correct when he wrote that colonies are ‘the white man’s burden.’ The West should keep out and let these people all over the world solve their own problems.Colonies and former colonies do not pay, and are nothing but dependencies.
And more than likely Mr Kipling made that statement after the Mother Country had suck the riches out of its colonies dry.
Suck the riches out and ensure the political system remaining supported them / or least likely to oppose.
Here is what the OAU is doing
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/news/world/05/24/insurgents-in-mogadishu-attack-au-peacekeepers
S Rowe,the mother countries had to suck the colonies dry because they never knew & still dont know what to do.They dont know how to live but only survive.Let somalia ask their pirates and robbers for help.
Ships from the developed countries are dumping nuclear and chemical wastes in Somalia waters.
that’s what happens when lawlessness takes over.