Monday, June 9, 2014
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Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheik Ahmed has called for end to violence and bloodshed in the Lower Shabelle region. The PM’s call comes hours after clan militias seized the region’s provincial capital Merka early on Monday morning.Monday’s fighting for the control of the city has left at least 12 people dead and wounded dozens of others, while the city of Merka still remains in the hands of clan militias.
At the end of an emergency meeting by the national security and political committe the prime minister called for the unconditional end the hostilities saying that from today 9th of June 2014 armed confrontations in the region must stop.
The Prime Minister also called for the withdrawals of militias from all battle fields adding that the National Army will urgently take over the security in the whole region.
“A top level delegation under the leadership of interior minister and the minister of defence will soon travel to Merka to control the situation” said the prime minister who requested AMISOM troops to help the national army to contain security.
“Somali government will do everything possible to facilitate an end to the armed confrontations in the region” noted the Prime minister adding that Al Shabab was taking advantage from such clan-based fighting in the region.
The region’s deputy governor Abdullahi Muse Abukar recently accused Somalia’s ministry of defence for the responsibility of the renewed clashes in the region.
HOl English News Desk