| Stilted phrasing and fractured syntax in the original, which was a translation from, I believe, Chickladorian. How things are done by the Somali "government": I think the gist of it is that he robbed Peter to pay Paul. Peter thinks he likes Paul better. Mounds, meanwhile, was in Mogadishu, shelling a hospital... |
The president of the transitional federal government Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed accompanying with government members of ministers and MPs has today paid short visit the training camp of Manas 35 km away from the provisional town of Baidoa, reports say. The president and the other officials supervised the parts of the training camp in which resided by militia of Digil and Mirifle clans and militia of Puntland those who had a month ago shifted from Jowhar suburb, capital town middle Shabelle region controlled by Mohamed Dhere, a powerful warlord.
The journalists were not allowed to witness the presidentÂ’s supervision to the camp, with the militia officers refuted the press to record the speech that president Yusuf delivered there. Sources close to the presidentÂ’s aide say Mr. Yusuf had whispered with the militia of Puntland those consist of 1,300 soldiers, giving each of them one million Somali Shillings for salary.
Mr. Yusuf also visited the part in the camp in which both RRA militia of Digil and Mirifle clans and hundreds of former national forces of totally 940 soldiers stationing by not paying them any salary or promotion as they were waiting him attentively. Nevertheless the deputy minister of defense Omar Adam Dhere said the government would recently pay salaries to militia of RRA (Rahanwein Resistance Army) and for national forces.
MogadishuÂ’s Somalinet correspondent says the comment of the deputy minister was an excuse to the militias not today being paid. The RRA militia were recruited and collected from checkpoints in and out side of Baidoa town and the government promised them with salary and welfare. |