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African Union donates Cash To New Somali Government: Sharif Backing AU Mission

Somali News Updates

18 March 2009

Mogadishu — The African Union has given to Somalia one million dollars to support the government to rebuild its national security forces, officials said on Monday.

The AU envoy to Somalia Nicholas Bwakira held a press conference with the prime minister in the presidential palace on Monday and said they have given the money to the Somali government to build its national security forces to stabilize the country.

Nicholas Bwakira told the cabinet and the prime minister that money will be contributed to Somalia in a meeting that will be held in Brussels on 22 of April this year.

"We have been holding meetings with the president and the prime minister for the last two days to give 1 million dollars to the government , so the government can build its national security forces," said Nicholas Bwakira.

Prime Minister Sharmarke said they will build strong national security forces to facilitate the withdrawal of AMISOM.

President Says Amisom Troops Will Stay Until Country Gets Its Own Forces

Somali president Sharif Sheik Ahmed held a press conference in Mogadishu on Saturday and said he talked about Uganda and Burundi governments about Somalia's issues and how they can help the Somali government.

"AMSOM troops are part of the peace agreement signed in Djibouti and we told Uganda and Burundi that we want to build our forces and to reconcile with the opposition," said president Sharif Sheik Ahmed.

He also said that they met with Libyan and Sudan's leaders and had told them they would mediate between his government and the opposition.

President Sharif Sheik Ahmed said they will unite the former TFG government soldiers and the Islamic Courts Union forces.

The president also told al-Qaeda to stop interfering in the affairs of Somalia.

"We are very sorry about the speech of al-Qaeda. Somalia has a government now and we do not need any fighting," said president Sharif.

"Al-Qaeda did not teach us the Islamic religion and has not given us any support so I urge them to leave us alone," he added.

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