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Uganda: Aideed's Widow Pleads for Somalia
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New Vision (Kampala)
24 April 2008
Posted to the web 25 April 2008
Patrick Jaramogi
Kampala
AFRICAN leaders should intervene to avert a humanitarian crisis looming in Somalia, wife to former Somali president Gen. Mohammed Farah Aideed, has appealed.
Kadhija Aideed told The New Vision on Wednesday in Kampala that the situation in Somalia was "disastrous" and needed urgent help.
"Women and children are dying. Some sleep on trees. They lack food, medicine and water. The international community should speed up its support."
Kadhija, who has been a guest of the Government for the past 10 years, appreciated the UPDF's efforts in bringing peace to the Horn of Africa, but added that it was still insufficient.
"We appreciate the role the UPDF is playing in Mogadishu but the situation is far from good. I urge the East African Community and African Union to act fast.
"President Museveni has helped to bring peace in Somalia but we need more African leaders to come on board."
She said she met the Ethiopian premier, Meles Zenawi, early this year and made the same call. Somalia president Abdulay Yusuf, Kadhija said, should talk peace with the opposition.
"Fighting will not end the turmoil. Instead, it is innocent people dying. Children are orphaned. Ethiopians are also dying, let the two parties sit and talk."
She also suggested that former UN secretary general Kofi Annan intervenes in Somalia like he did in Kenya.
Somali descended into chaos after the overthrow and death of Siad Barre in January 1991.
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Farah Aideed, Somalia's top general, was killed in January 1998.
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