The Ethiopian government has said it has killed a foreign leader supporting Somali opposition groups in Somalia.
Ethiopian TV, ETV, said Ethiopian troops in Somalia killed a senior foreign national who supports Somali opposition groups.
The Ethiopian government said the foreigner, who supports the Somali opposition, is from Nigeria, and is called Sa'ad Muhammad. The Nigerian was killed in Berdaale, Bay Region.
The Ethiopian government said the operation was carried out to restore security in Somalia, adding that groups opposed to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia are still powerful.
An ETV reporter in Somalia said Ethiopian troops will crush all groups opposed to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia [TFG]. source mareeg
Monday, 8 September 2008
Sunday, 7 September 2008
somalia- Iran threatens to Puntland if its ship is extradited to US
Mr. Hassan al-Nouri and Minister of Minerals and Petroleum of the Government of Puntland in Somalia to the regional American Navy in Djibouti asked them to surrender one of the hijacked Iranian ships to the pirates, which it accuses carrying military equipment and weapons variety, the regional official said in a telephone conversation with «Mareeg online» that about one hundred combatants Somalis in the region «Il» marine vessel, after the international waters in the Indian Ocean immediately after his arrival to the region to the Truth.
The immediate improvement is that belongs to the tribe pirates in this region a number of clan elders to solve the problem before it becomes excessive and disaster, and said «will return to his country« Il »because Preparations are in full swing to receive the ship's crew and its cargo».
He added that «all arrangements ready to receive the ship at sea or on the beach area and await approval by the leaders of the pirates».
According to press sources and security in Puntland that the Iranian Ministry of Defense threatened to use mine water, thumping big bombs on the territory of north-east Somalia if the authorities provided the north-east Somalia information from one of its vessels to U.S. forces, and warned of the consequences of approaching the vessel to enter the political and security differences existing between them and Washington.
The Tehran government called in a letter addressed to the President of Puntland, General Adde Musa Hersi to release the vessels and crew Iranian abducted from the Gulf of Aden, currently detained in the «Il» which is considered one of the biggest bases of Somali militias who organized attacks against foreign ships, formerly the region center For local fishermen.
On the other hand expressed the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Somalia, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah was disturbed due to a rise of acts of piracy on the coast of Somalia and its impact on stability in the region.
It is noteworthy that the pirates are currently detained more than 10 vessels with local authorities indicate that trade faces many obstacles, especially in the north of the country.
, The pirates threatened to kill French citizens unless the release of six fellow prisoners in Paris after a wild chase freely and carried out in the French town of Alcolmandos «Graad» last April, after the short notice of payment of ransom and the release yacht «Le Pen» The French hostages, and regained French half of ransom amounting to two million dollars in the process of rebuttal.
He threatened Al-Hussein - one of the pirates to kill the two hostages «if their demands are not respected source Mareeg
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