Two years after its invasion of Somalia, Ethiopia army claims to have begun their retreat. "It is a process that will take some time," said Bereket Simon, advisor to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Contrast that with the departure of the most important military power in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a power vacuum is created, we've taken. "We have taken the necessary steps to prevent a relapse into the anarchy of earlier times," said Bereket.
of a possible "return" can be no question. A debris field left by the Ethiopian army, had previously held the powerless Somali transitional government under the now-retired President Abdullahi Yusuf in power. Before setting up Yusuf's Ethiopian invasion in late 2006 it had been in Mogadishu for the first time in fifteen years, a kind of stability. The ruling Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) had broken down in just six months in power, the illegally built road blocks and "tolls" and ousted the warlords and their private armies. Even the then still small piracy off Somalia's coast, pronounced prepared the Islamists, led by a relatively moderate force Sheikh Sharif Ahmed to an end. At the same time they banned in the demonstration football transfers and other TV shows, and thieves were publicly stoned to death. But many residents of Somalia, traditionally linked with a tolerant Islam, Islamism took the alien the benefit of the return of a peaceful everyday life into account.
was after the Ethiopian invasion and the overthrow of the UIC is so over: the Islamic courts were split, the extremists gained weight. Their troops, Al-Shabab militia deliver since then from the underground to fight with the Ethiopian troops and everyone they see as allied with Ethiopia. 10,000 civilian victims, the UN estimates, have called for these battles.
Instead of the Ethiopians Somalia wants headless transitional government now seems clamp the former adversaries. From the ground, fighters from Sharif moderate UIC group would have on the weekend, several police stations abandoned by the Ethiopians occupied. "We want to prevent an outbreak of new violence," said a militia leader of local radio stations. Sharif had last year agreed to a peace agreement with the transitional government. The number of deputies in the largely powerless transitional parliament was doubled overnight, to make way for Sharif faction. Now it seems to pay off the deal: If Sharif troops can slow down their former Islamist comrades, Sharif is likely the succession of President Abdullahi Yusuf to be sure.
circulating in Mogadishu already rumors that Sharif will meet in Cairo with Shabab-Eminence Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys. Reconciliation with Aweys, who is wanted by the United States as a terrorist, is operated by several Arab nations. Even Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur Adde is an advocate of a negotiated settlement with the radical Islamists.
Under pressure, the Shabab, which controls much of Somalia has, in recent weeks by a new militia called Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah, which has already conquered several of the Islamists occupied territories. "We will fight Al-Shabab, until past are, "announced one of their leaders, Sheikh Abu Yusuf Abdullahi, on Sunday. Whether behind the new movement of moderate Islamists and warlords ousted, is currently unclear. Perhaps the troops of Ethiopia also supported. The fact that Ethiopia, Somalia, of whatever kind Islamist government can believe in Somalia no surprise. Thus, not even reports that marched several hundred of the Ethiopian army at the weekend in southwestern Somalia, where the Shabab their strongholds added. The alleged Ethiopian withdrawal could be as early as the coming days surprise offensive .
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(Copyright with the daily newspaper, 05/01/2009)
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