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Somalia:Hawiye clan reject government’s call for outside troops.

Mogadishu 22 March 2009 Waagacusub Media

Somalia’s Hawiye clan elders strongly opposed on Sunday the request by the country’s foreign minister in which he demanded the deployment of additional foreign troops in Somalia.
 
Ahmed Dirie Ali, spokesman for the Hawiye Traditional Council, said the foreign minister’s call for outside troops might cause another conflict and total collapse to the reconciliation process.

He appealed to the FM to back off his call for outside forces describing it as unthinkable matter.

Ali said the government’s call for outside troops might deter the efforts aimed to unify the insurgents and government soldiers.

The government’s demand for additional foreign troops brought greater anger in the capital as the country’s Uluma Council earlier called for the withdrawal of the current African Union troops from Somalia within four months.