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Somalia: Islamic Courts ban road travel to Baidoa, government base
2006-12-10
(SomaliNet) Authorities of the Islamic Courts Union in the capital have issued on Saturday an order suspending all traffic between Mogadishu and Baidoa cities in Somalia for security reasons - in response to TFGÂ’s similar banning of from Mogadishu. No car has this morning gone to Baidoa as result of the ban enforced by the Islamic Courts Union.

Sheik Mukhtar Robow known as ‘Abu-Mansur’, the deputy chief security of Islamic Courts Union told today the local media that the ICU officials have agreed on the move to stop traffic to Baidoa, the seat of the transitional federal government.
"We can not allow our people to travel to a city occupied by Ethiopian soldiers," Sheik Abu-Mansur said.
"We have taken the measure as security precautions because we can not allow our people to travel to a city occupied by Ethiopian soldiers," Sheik Abu-Mansur said. "By the time the TFG officials have already banned cars to Mogadishu, we then decided to block all vehicles travelling to Baidoa since there is a war tension,"

The decree which will affect all traffic to Baidao starts today, local Islamic officials said but they did not mention how long it will last. Islamic Courts Union which now controls much of southern and central Somalia banned fuel tankers and other Lories carrying fuel to enter Baidoa to impose sanction on the government last month.

Many passengers as well as drivers in the capital who prepared for travelling to Baidoa have cast their complaints saying that they were very sorry about the decision by the Islamic Courts to suspend travel within the country. "As you see here are the travellers and we can not set off to Baidoa because of the ICU's move to ban the journey... this outlaw is really a problem to our job," Yusuf Abbas, one of the drivers told Somalinet correspondent in Mogadishu. Earlier the local authority in Baidoa issued a decree banning all small cars to enter Mogadishu for security points.
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