- Title: [SW News](Sources) Faction Leaders Reaffirm Opposition to TNG
- Posted by/on:[AMJ][Friday, March 2, 2001]
Faction Leaders Reaffirm Opposition To Transitional Government
Story Filed: Thursday,
March 01, 2001 10:20 AM EST
Nairobi, Mar 01, 2001 (UN Integrated Regional Information Network/All Africa Global
Media via COMTEX)-- In a press statement issued in Nairobi on Tuesday, Mogadishu's three
main faction leaders said they had resolved their differences and called for a new,
broader based, national reconciliation process.
Dismissing the National Reconciliation Conference (NRC) in Arta, Djibouti, which led to
the formation of the Transitional National Government (TNG)in Somalia, as consisting of
"remnants of the Siad Barre regime, religious extremists and Somali exiles", the
three leaders said they wanted fresh talks inside Somalia.
The press statement criticised the TNG, accusing it of fomenting civil war and stealing
from the Somali people by printing billions of shillings of counterfeit currency. All
three leaders, Hussein Mohamed Aidid, Muse Sudi Yalahow and Osman Hassan Ali Atto, had
been invited to participate in the Arta conference but had refused.
The faction leaders said earlier in the week that they had come for talks with Kenyan
president Daniel Arap Moi. Moi is currently in Libya.
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Friday, 2 March, 2001, 02:58 GMT
Somali faction leaders
mend fences
The leaders of three
Somali political factions say they've resolved their differences and have called for the
replacement of the transitional government, led by President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan.
The three leaders -- Hussein Aidid, Osman Hassan Atto and Musse Sudi
Yalahow -- refused to recognise Mr Hassan when he was appointed at a reconciliation
conference in Djibouti last August.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Aidid said they've now agreed to call for a new
reconciliation conference to be held -- this time in Somalia.
He said Mr Hasan's government did not have popular support and said it
consists of members of the regime of Siad Barre, who was expelled from the country in
1991.
Correspondents say the call by the three leaders will be seen as a
potential threat to Mr Hassan, but it's not clear how much support they have inside
Somalia.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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Saraakiil ka socota Q/Midoobay oo la kulantay kooxa Mucaaradka
Wakiilka
Xoghayaha guud ee Qaramada Mid-oobay ee Soomaaliya David Steven, Madaxa Hay'adda
UNDP-Somalia Rundoph Kent oo uu wehliyay La Taliyaha arimaha Siyaasadda ee Safaaradda
Faransiiska ku leeyahay Magaalada Nairobi isla markaana ah Xog hayaha koowaad ee
Safaaradaas Yuvs Gounin ayaa shalay ku booqday Hotelka ay degan yihiin Muuse Suudi
Yalaxow, Cusmaan Xasan Cali Caato, Xuseen Maxamed Caydiid iyo wafdigii la socday.
Mas'uuliyiintaas
iyo Hogaamiyayaasha Kooxaha Soomaaliyeed waxay ka wada hadleen arrimo ay ka mid ahaayeen
waxyaabihii ugu dambeeyay ee ku soo kordhay Soomaaliya iyo dee-qaha ay Hay'adaha
sama-falka iyo Dalalka daneeya arrimaha Soomaaliya u soo diraan Dalka, sidoo kalena
Hogaamiyayaasha Kooxaha ayaa u gudbiyay Madaxdaas fikirka ay ka qabaan Kooxda uu Hogaamiyo
C/qaasim Sal-aad.
Dhanka kale
waxgarad kala duwan oo ku dhaqan Magaalada Nairobi ayaa xa-lay ku booqday Hotel-ka uu
deegan yahay Muuse Suudi Yalaxow, Waxgaradkaas waxaa ka mid ahaa Xaaji Do-ol, Xaaji
Yoonis, C/llaahi Ogaaeeniya, Suldaan Xeyle, Ciise Axmed Dalabey (Ciise Dheere), Cadow
Dheg-aweyne, C/llaahi Sabriye, Dr. Maxamed Cali Kamoole, C/r-isaaq Ceel Waaq iyo Wa-xgarad
kale oo aad u tiro badan.
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Col. Shaar Gaduud iyo Xuseen Caydiid
Col. Xasan
Maxamed Nuur Shaar Gaduud oo ah Gud-doomiyaha Jabhadda RRA oo ay wareysaneysay Idaacada
Horn Afrik ayaa sheegay in uu-san jirin Heshiis ay wado Ito-obiya oo lagu
dhexdh-exaadinayo isaga, Xuseen Ca-ydiid iyo Cusmaan Caato, isaga oo cadeeyay in ay wax ka
weyn ka wada hadli doonaan. Col Shaar Gaduud mar uu ka hadlayay sida uu u arko heshiis
dhex mara isaga iyo Xuseen Caydiid ayaa yiri "Xu-seen Caydiid dhib waa waday waxayna
ahayd mid uu ka dh-axlay aabihiis, taasina waan iska ridnay, balse maanta ari-ntaas waxaa
nooga daran tan ay wadaan C/qaasim iyo xu-lufadiisa". C/llaahi Yuusuf oo aad ku
kulanteen Maxaad isla soo qaadeen? Ayay ahayd su'aal kale oo la weydiiyay. "Anigu
Ceel Barde ma tegin ee wakiil ayaa ii joogay laakin C/llaahi Yuusuf waxaan isku aragti ka
nahay in Maamul goboleedyo la dhiso, kadibna soomaali isu timaado, wada hadasho, wax
jujuub ah sida Jabuuti oo kalena uusan xal ku imaaneyn" ayuu yiri Col. Xasan Maxamed
Nuur Shaar Gaduud oo dhanka kalena sheegay in dowladda KMG ah ay waddo faragelin iyo
tabaabusho, isla markaana aysan moogeyn . Korneelka mar wax laga weydiiyay sida uu u arko
in xal ku imaan karo waxaa uu tibaaxay in soomaali shir caadil ah loo qabto dad daacad ah,
dood loo furo, isla markaana wixii magdhow ah ay kala qa-ataan.
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New Somali government "
harbinger of renewed bloodshed" (13:10 Mar 01 2001)
The president of the self-declared
republic of Somaliland, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, the day before yesterday held talks in
Hargeysa with a delegation from the EU and told them that Somaliland should not be asked
anything about the rest of Somalia because Somaliland was an independent country.
Asked whether the Djibouti conference had set a good precedent for reconciliation in
Somalia, Egal said: "That conference was meant to destroy Somaliland. Somaliland had
nothing to do with the conference and its outcome can never be a solution for
Somalia."
Egal also told the delegation that Somaliland had functioning state and legislative
institutions and would soon hold free and fair elections in which all political parties
would participate after a referendum is held on the new Somaliland constitution. This
would mark, he said, the end of the previous period and Somaliland would enter into a new
era...
"I am surprised at the way the UN is managing the Somali issue. The UN
secretary-general's envoy, David Stephen, submitted an incomplete report to the Security
Council and the UN called on regions that had peace and functioning administrations to
enter into an agreement or join the faction set up in Arta. We see this faction as
harbingers of renewed bloodshed in Somalia," Egal said.
In conclusion, Egal called on the EU to evaluate Somaliland on its performance. He said if
people wanted Somalia to be stable, then Somalia should follow the process which
Somaliland went through, namely, to build up from the basics by putting in place local and
regional administrative structures, and bring about peace.
Source: Xog-Ogaal
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