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13 May 2009 Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Siad known as
Indha Ade, an Islamist leader has said on Tuesday that
he has handed over his weapons to a man who he
described as his brother.
Sources said that Indho Ade handed his weapons to
the opposition leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys.
Sheik Yusuf Inda'ade told local journalists that he
totally handed over his entire weapons to one of his
brothers declining to name the man he handed over to
his weapons.
Sheik Yusuf has been asked if he had totally halted
the politics of Somalia but declined to say more about
that question.
Asked about how he sees the fighting in Mogadishu,
Sheik Yusuf Inda'ade replied that they were not part
of the fighting adding that peace and solution is the
only thing they need.
The statement of Islamist leader Sheik Yusuf
Mohamed Siad Inda'ade comes as there has been heavy
fighting between the government soldiers and Islamist
insurgent forces for the past 5 days in the capital
Mogadishu.
Elders Call for Warring Sides to
Halt Fighting in Mogadishu
The traditional elders in Abudwak town in central
Somalia have Tuesday called for the warring rival
sides in the Somali capital Mogadishu to halt the
fighting.
The elders expressed concern about the fighting and
called for the two sides to halt the fighting not to
displace the people from their houses saying that the
displacing people include recently returned displaced
people who fled their houses in the era of the
fighting with the Ethiopian troops in the country.
The traditional elders of Abudwak town in Galgudud
region said that the fighting groups are bothers and
fought in same place during the fighting with
Ethiopian troops that lasted since two years
requesting from both sides not to provoke and threaten
with a weapon and come to dialogue to end the
conflict.
It is the first time that the traditional elders of
Abudwak town in Galgudud region talk about Mogadishu
fighting and it comes as heavy fighting continued in
the capital for the past 5 days that left about 100.
On the other hand the security forces of Abudwak
administration have conducted operations against the
banditry actions and captured more bandits around the
town as they were searching the traffic and passengers
traveling through streets and areas near the town.
Residents said the security forces of Abudwak town
in Galgudud region and the people of the town
conducted operations against the bandits around the
town and jailed more bandits by a time those bandits
took the belongings of the people forcibly like
mobiles, money and other things. |
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