23 May 2009
The African Union (AU) has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Eritrea and other parties backing the insurgents fighting to overthrow Somalia's transitional federal government.
The AU's Peace and Security Council said after a meeting in Addis Ababa Friday that it was asking the Security Council to enforce a no-fly zone and blockade of sea ports to prevent foreign fighters and weapons from entering Somalia.
The council condemned what it called the aggression perpetrated on both civilians and the transitional government by "armed groups, including foreign elements, bent on undermining the peace and reconciliation process, as well as regional stability."
It also voiced its concern at "the increased presence of foreign elements in Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia," which it noted had been corroborated by the UN.
The council based its appeals for action on a statement issued earlier in the week by the East African group of nations known as the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
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EthioMan you are a liar. You stated "What is fact is fact, can not be changed. Eritrea is involved not because it feels for the Somalies but because Afeworki wants to use the Somali cause to attack Ethiopian intrerests. He doea not care if the Somali people exsist or not. It is that simple." First let me state the only thing simple is you. Now as to what you said, do you really believe that? Eritrean's do feel for Somali’s and what you don’t realize is that if it weren’t for the Somali’s Eritrea would never have gained its independents from the new-colonial state of Ethiopia. I know you do not know much about the history of the liberation movement in Eritrea nor do you know much about your own history. I am sure you did not even read the book written by your former master Mengistu. You are just ignorant like that. I will not even give you the honor of teaching you real facts because you are not worth it. What I will say is that your statement above makes it seem as though Eritrea invaded Somalia in 2006 in order to fight a proxy war with Ethiopia. The truth of the matter is Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006 with direct support from the United States of America and created the current situation in Somalia it is also a well known fact that previous to Ethiopia's invasion Somalia was coming together under the leadership of the UIC and was improving at an alarming rate. I say alarming, because it was scary for the West and by the West I also mean Ethiopia to have another African country start to assemble its own form of governance. Eritrea did not create this current situation and no one needs to supply AK-47 to Somalia they have always had ridiculous amounts of weapons and ammunitions in that country Even BBC did a story about 10 years ago about how you could by AK-47's at the local market like it was bananas.
I also see that you are trying to equate Islam with Terrorists and you are also trying to label people terrorists in their own country. You are a backwards individual and probably from some peasant family in Ethiopia. You are no man of honor.
The blood thirsty, life time dictators, mafia thugs & clowns of the AU were too busy messing around with Ethiopian street girls in the hotels of Addis Ababa (the headquarters of the AU), when Ethiopia invaded, occupied & looted the Somalia & massacred it's unarmed defenseless civilian families for more than three years. How is that these AU mafia thugs, all of the sudden earned the moral fiber, qualification & aptitude to preach to the world about Islamic or Christian insurgency, when these mafias could careless to lift a finger for a member state (Somalia) being invaded & occupied for three years by another member state (ethiopia)? What do the AU life time dictators, mafia thugs & clowns, who prosecuted & massacred more starving Africans in their own homelands than the Somali civil war, know anything about moral obligation to stand up & root for Somalia & peacefully resolve the Somali civil war, when they can not solve the wars in their own homelands? I suspect the AU mafias are paid, bribed handsomely to cover up for Ethiopian defeat & retreat from Somalia, by accusing anything & everything on sight? It's time for cry wolf,,, or they are just following orders from their former-slave-masters in America?
AU should not mind him ,how can Africa progress if we have presidents like Isaias Afrwerki,who think only about himself,he is selfish UN should listern to AU and take action so that Somalia people would be free,they have been in this situation for long .They should even stop him from traveling .
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