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| Somalia's Prime Minister wants Ethiopian troops to stay |
| 2008-12-03 |
| (SomaliNet) Unless there is an international peacekeeping force to replace Ethiopian troops, the Somali Premier says he hopes Ethiopia won't withdraw its troops from Somalia. The Somali Premier Nur Hassan Hussein says he wants the United Nations and international community to "avoid the vacuum" and send peacekeepers to back the country's shaky transitional government. Nur Hassan Hussein was speaking Tuesday with The Associated Press. Ethiopia has said it will pull its troops out next month. The Ethiopians have been in Somalia since December 2006, and drove out an Islamic administration that seized control of southern Somalia and the capital. But the Islamist insurgency has grown again and now controls all of southern Somalia except for Mogadishu. |
| Posted by:Fred |