(Garowe) — The Ethiopian Woyanne army’s top generals in Somalia have began holding private discussions with interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur “Adde” Hassan Hussein in a bid to avert the transitional government’s collapse, confidential sources tell Somali news agency Garowe Online.
Gen. Gabre and Gen. Yohanis returned to the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, after being recalled to Addis Ababa earlier this month by Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi.
Sources at the Villa Somalia presidential palace said the generals have began holding one-on-one talks with President Yusuf and Premier Nur Adde upon their return from Addis Ababa.
The President is being “pressured to accept” the Prime Minister’s decision to fire Mohamed Dheere as Mogadishu’s mayor, the sources added.
In return, the Prime Minister has been asked to abandon five new faces he named to the Cabinet, after ten ministers — who are reportedly pro-Yusuf — resigned from the Cabinet, widening the political rift between the Somali leaders.
Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV has reported that the Ethiopian Woyanne regime “plans to replace” Yusuf as Somalia’s interim president, if the ongoing dispute worsens.
Meanwhile, Somali lawmakers are pouring into the southwestern town of Baidoa, where the country’s transitional federal parliament has been based since 2006 for security-related reasons.
Upwards of 200 MPs — out of a 275-seat parliament — have already arrived in Baidoa and will reportedly open debate on “important motions,” according to legislative sources.
Somalia’s interim government, established in 2004, has less than one year left before its mandate expires.
But critics say the government has been crippled by lack of popular support, corruption allegations and endless quarrels among its top leaders.
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This is getting out of hand. The puppet master has lost control of his puppet. This just shows how effective Meles & Co. are in making things not work. They don’t know how to manage anything. They should just withdraw and let the ICU/ARS show them how to truly tame the streets of Mogadishu.
It is really unfortunate how the Ethiopian government is being used as an imperial tool of the West in the “new scramble” for Africa. Ethiopia will never be free unless it stops contracting its sons to fight and die for the interest of the West. Meles’s crimes are only one element within a mosaic of the West’s desire to establish a new world order. The oil wells are drying up and Africa is getting carved up between the West and China. The battle for the future has already started. These deadly battles are not only being fought through the barrel of the gun but also under the guise of “military advisors,” “NGOs,” and “Human rights group.”
The West, the U.S. in particular, is leading these battles to overthrow governments that refuse to be their pawns. Governments that refuse to obey are accused of being gross violators of “human rights,” “democracy” etc. And those that are willing to lick the boots of the West are rewarded with “food-aid,” and protection from being prosecuted. Ex: Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader accused of leading the slaughter of thousands Bosnian Muslims, revealed he was able to avoid capture to face genocide and war crimes charges thanks to his connections to the West.
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August 11th, 2008 at 6:47 PM
The simplest way for Meles Seitanawi to govern Somalia is to appoint someone from his own political party as governor of Somalia, as the United States did in Iraq, until things settled down in Somalia, and Meles should tell to the world that Woyanne is going to stay in Somalia as far as his regime in Ethiopia is firm and solid. In the mean time, Somalia and Ethiopia should live together in peace, and when Ethiopia gets its freedom from Dictator Meles Seitanawi, then Somalia will also be free from the occupying Woyanne forces.
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August 12th, 2008 at 2:57 PM