Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 23, Nov.06 ( Sh.M.Network) - The United States has officially supported deployment of regional forces in Somalia, US State Department spokesperson Tom Casey revealed Thursday.
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Talking to journalists, Casey said the proposal to dispatch regional troops in Somalia was raised by Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, an organization that comprises of seven countries.
Casey said the forces would first be trained and then dispatched to Somalia.
Somali government, which is largely tenuous has previously asked IGAD and African Unionto approve the decision to deploy peace keeping forces in Somalia, a decision the international community showed a great precaution following the seizure of most central and southern Somalia, including the capital Mogadishu.
The Union of Islamic Courts entirely opposes foreign intervention in Somalia, declaring a jihad or holy war against Ethiopia that has thousands of troops in the country to protect the weak government against Islamist invasion.
The US government that voiced concerns of al-Qaeda elements in Somalia’s Islamists groups has for the first time backed deploying African peacekeeping forces in a country that fragmented into many parts and under the control of Islamic Courts which restored peace and order into the war-ravaged country.
Djibouti, a member state of IGAD refused African troop deployment to Somalia, rather encouraged peace talks take place between the Islamic Courts and the transitional federal government (TFG).
Peace talks between Somalia’s vying parties had ended in failure early November after both groups could not agree up on who might arbitrate the talks as Islamist insisted on the removal of Kenya, representing IGAD from the mediators and the government said it would quit the talks if IGAD was not part of the mediation.
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