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Key Somali MP to ally with Islamic Courts

2006-07-25

(SomaliNet) Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade, member of Somali parliament and Adam Mohamed Saran-Sor, among leaders of RRA (Rahanwein Resistance Army) who both in Sudanese capital of Khartoum are due to arrive in Somalia capital Mogadishu in next few days. Reliable sources say on Sunday. Reports say MP Ibrahim Habsade and security official of RRA will come to Mogadishu to make alliance with Council of Islamic Courts after they got annoyed the new policy by the transitional federal government which made the TFG more closer to Ethiopian government and also the Ethiopian troops had entered Baidoa town in a time he was in Libya since the approval of foreign deployment including frontline states by the Somali legislators.

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Africa Horn

Defeated Mogadishu militia crosses into Bay province border

2006-06-04

Militia loyal to the minister of disarmament and rehabilitation of militias Botan Isse Alin with six of battle wagons surrendered to RRA (Rahanwein Resistance Army) in Bur-hakaba district of Bay region in southwest Somalia on Saturday four days after they were defeated in clashes in northeast Mogadishu in which Islamic courts captured key positions from anti terror alliance. Local officials in Bur-hakaba said militia of Botan Isse who is member of anti terror alliance has reached the town and gave up to the officials. They were about dozens militiamen with six vehicles known as ‘Technicals’ Reports say the militia was heading to Baidoa town, temporarily capital of the transitional federal government to join the government. RRA militia is reported have to gone to Burhabka to escort the militia of anti terror alliance. Sources close to government officials say the arrival of militia in Bay region came after Botan Isse Alin made telephone contacts with top government officials and complied with the call of the Prime Minister Gedi to rejoin his cabinet in Baidoa. Mr. Botan Isse whose the last whereabouts was Jowhar is said himself to be heading to Baidoa and backed out of the alliance. Botan Isse who is member of the alliance for restoration peace and counter terrorism (ARPCT) is reported have acknowledged that he had lose in the latest battles with Islamic courts’ union in the capital and then decided to leave for Biadoa, where the TFG is based after it shifted from Jowhar, a town controlled by Mohamed Dhere and some 90km of the capital.

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Africa Horn

Somali president gives payment to his Puntland militia

2006-05-30

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 president’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 president’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. Mogadishu’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.

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East/Subsaharan Africa

Somali town captured

2002-08-01

Anarchy continues in Somalia. As long as it's not al-Qaeda anarchy I don't care... The southern Somali town of Baidoa is reported to have fallen to forces loyal to Colonel Hassan Mohamed Nur Shatigudud. The Ethiopian backed warlord's forces have been battling with the fighters of his former deputies in the Rahanwein Resistance Army, Sheikh Adan Madobeh and Mohamed Ibrahim Habsadeh. Hundreds of armed troops pulled out of town this morning and the fighting has now stopped.

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International

US consulting with Somalis

2001-12-12

Sources claimed that five US officers had visited another Somaili rebel group and discussed a number of potential targets. Warlords from the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA) ­ a faction opposed to the country's fledgling government ­ identified a training camp for militants close to the border with Kenya, run by the Somali group, al-Itihad al-Islamiya. The US officers were, according to the sources, accompanied by four Ethiopian officers. Hmmm. This is one of a continuing series of reports on Somalia... And the Rangers certainly want to go back for a nice visit.

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Somali factions sign peace accord. Some of them, anyway.

2001-12-25

Somalia's transitional administration and representatives of rival factions signed a peace accord paving the way for a national unity government, but key leaders in the armed opposition immediately rejected it. The agreement called for the formation within a month of "an all-inclusive government ensuring equitable power-sharing amongst all the Somali clans", as well as disarmament under UN auspices. They agreed "to renounce violence as a means of settling political differences and to ensure cooperation with the international community in the eradication of terrorism." But Hassan Mohamed Nur "Shatigudud", head of the Rahanwein Resistance Army and co-president of the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council, immediately said his coalition took no part in the talks leading to the accord. Shatigudud's co-president Hussein Mohamed Aidid, whose faction controls part of the capital Mogadishu, said: "We reject it completely." You're not taking this seriously, boys. Read the papers.

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