Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
Aweys Osman Yusuf
5 December 2006
Mogadishu — The Arab League has asked the United States government to explain the draft resolution that, if approved, will let regional peacekeeping troops go in Somalia to protect the impotent government seated in the small town of Baidoa. The US-backed draft resolution calls on the lifting of arms embargo on Somalia partially.
Arab League has declared the arms embargo lifting could fail the ongoing negotiations between Somalia's vying parties.
On Monday, Islamists held a huge rally in the capital Mogadishu where thousands of people have gathered in football stadium to protest the Ethiopian military intervention in the country and US campaign for African troop deployment in Somalia.
The League said the resolution would spark a civil war in Somalia that may spread out in the region, stating that peace talks in Somalia should be given a chance as the government and Islamic Courts Union are due to come to the negotiating table in the Sudanese capital Khartoum mid December.
The news came as UN Security Council member states is debating about the approval of alleviating the arms embargo on Somalia after 14 years.
Somalia's civil war has begun in 1991 when warlords ousted President Siad Barre, and then turned against one another, plunging the country into anarchic dire conditions.
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