For Immediate Release
PRESS RELEASE 0001/2009
Nairobi, 9 January 2009 – A multi-disciplinary technical team from the United Nations will visit Nairobi and Addis Ababa next week to examine, among other tasks, ways that the UN can provide support to the African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
The team includes the UN Deputy Special Representative for Somalia Charles Petrie, the UN Political Office for Somalia and representatives from UNHQ: Departments of Peacekeeping, Field Support and Political Affairs. The visit is a follow up to the increased attention given to Somalia since the Government of Ethiopia announced the withdrawal of its troops. In addition the UN Secretary General has undertaken a number of contacts, including with regional leaders, to ensure that AMISOM urgently receives the necessary support.
The Mission will hold wide ranging consultations on ways to support AMISOM, as well as Somalia’s transitional Security Forces and Police, and to provide the authorities with necessary backing.
The United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, said he was hopeful that the Mission would result in concrete and swift action.
“It is of critical importance that AMISOM receives material and financial support from the UN to enable its troops to remain effective and on the ground in Somalia,” he said.
“The Governments of Burundi and Uganda have helped enormously by providing the troops and they deserve gratitude and help.
“Likewise we need to reinforce and build up the Somali capacity on the ground to ensure they can take responsibility for the security of their people.”
For more information please contact: Susannah Price / Donna Cusumano, Public Information Officers, UN Political Office for Somalia (Nairobi, Kenya) Tel: +254 20 762 1192/1625 or +254 733902020/737400133
Please visit: www.UN-Somalia.org
“UN team to explore ways of supporting security in Somalia”. UN good but Somali have neighbors but problems are more to the finding just hire the youth (Somali) this is the way for UN to go and the Somali families are good to go. No offence to helper’s world that helps and still tries. Culture clash is huge and Somalis are good to respect other world humans and keep ground.
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My advice to this tecknical team and indeed every body who tries to solve Somali problem.
There's are three faces
1.Wahabism, from begaining it was realy innocent venture when Somalis went to Saudi Arabia as a forign worker, the Saudis who se Wahabi as the only real islams interpretatio ,they react to that, when Somalis told them They are Ahmadiya. Saudis begain to recrute missionaries to spread Wahabi and told them you are almost shariks if you not fellow Sheik Abdulwahab. They have got plenty of money, any Somali who ask money for the mission was illegible. This mission is in place even today but more deadly, the Wahabi missioneries use wapon to take over power.
2. Induviduels, often smart onces who understand that Somalis are real muslims, and if you said I am sheik and a man of god, you will be incharge,
3- foot soldiers
They are inbetween them, paid and loyal for any of the groups as long as they get paid although clan mentality erupts sometime. They are fighters and in realy thats why the war is conteneus, any one who want create peace in Somalia has to deal with these foot soldiers, in reality they are mercenaries. Who pay them will win them. My advice their make them national army
4. Warlods, are power hungry individuels, they use any metod possible take gain power, sometimes they clan or religion name or military means. The problems of the warlods is, there's no good warlord among them, sometimes strong worlond can unite a country for sigle dominate power, we don't have one and they are bad and uneducated individuels, they can't solve anything.
conclusion
We need alternative this time around.
1.Intranationa kommunity must ingage Somali intlectuels, find them and create Somali intelectuel body
2. Create national army from these foot soldiers who today fights for those groups
The problems is huge
Wabilahi towfiiq
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