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| Africa Horn | |
| Somalia wants humanitarian force to guard food convoys | |
| 2011-08-14 | |
| MOGADISHU: Somalia on Saturday called for the creation of a special humanitarian force to protect food aid convoys and camps in the famine-hit Horn of Africa country. The government and a 9,000-strong African peacekeeping force admit they do not control all of the capital even after the The pullout by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali held a joint news conference with Valerie Amos, UN emergency relief coordinator, visiting the capital. “We met today with Valerie Amos ... we have discussed the current humanitarian situation in Somalia and the best way that we can assist with humanitarian aid to the people,” said Ali. “We have also raised the issue of creating a special humanitarian force, which has dual purposes. First to secure and protect the food aid convoy, and to protect the camps and stabilize the city and fight banditry and looting.” Ali did not say who would make up such a force.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 A humanitarian force. Will they have rainbow helmets, ride unicorns, and have super soakers for weapons? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-08-14 19:52 |
| #4 How about a resounding no. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2011-08-14 19:47 |
| #3 No thanks, we been there and done that. It wasn't appreciated the first time. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-08-14 16:00 |
| #2 Sounds... um.... familiar. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-08-14 13:29 |
| #1 Moslems are starving and killing one another ? How did that happen? They need a "peacekeeping" force of about Divisional size? Yeah? I wonder why, that would imply that the "government" didnt somehow have the capability to enforce their own sovereign writ in their own country. Must have something to do with the Moslem values and the consistency of Arab efficiency matched with the capacity to organize something larger than a shahid clusterfook. But somehow starving Arabs out in the heat blazing away at one another and tearing into the women and starving children while they do it...well, what did you EXPECT from people with turbans on their heads? OH, look there's one with a distended belly and LOTS of ribs visible coming out of the Mosque even as we speak. Its all Bush's fault. Ask anyone. |
| Posted by: de Medici 2011-08-14 06:42 |