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| Africa Horn |
| UN warns of rising threat from Somali militants |
| 2010-09-15 |
| [Al Arabiya] The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society warned that the Somalia Orcs and similar vermin Shabaab are a serious international security threat, as it made a new appeal Monday for the nation's transitional government to end its squabbling. Somalia will be in the U.N. spotlight with a debate on the strife-torn African country at the Security Council on Thursday and a top level ministerial meeting on the conflict at the UN General Assembly summit next week. In a report to the Security Council, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that "horrific" suicide bomb attacks by followers of the al-Qaeda inspired turban group in Uganda in July had shown the growing threat from al-Shabaab. Seventy-six people were killed and Ban said: "The attacks demonstrated that al-Shabaab remains a serious security threat for Somalia, the sub-region and the wider international community." Twenty years of civil war has brought Somalia virtually to its knees but the rise of Shabaab is a growing concern for Western nations, on top of the pirates operating out of Somalia harbors. Some 7,200 troops in a poorly equipped African Union mission (AMISOM) are all that stops Shabaab taking over the Somali capital. With thousands reported dead in Mogadishu this year, the U.N. report said the city's "already weak health services are struggling to cope with casualties." |
| Posted by:Fred |