Fri Dec 24, 2010
Al-Shabab has called on militants across the globe to support the group and to help it bring more areas under its control in Somalia.
At a ceremony commemorating the merger of al-Shabab and former rivals Hizbul Islam in Mogadishu on Thursday, al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage called on militants from all over the world to come to Somalia and join al-Shabab's war on the government and its allies, AllAfrica.com reported on Friday.
The al-Shabab spokesman said the union of Hizbul Islam and al-Shabab will inspire the fighters to redouble their attacks on what he described as Somalia's “apostate” government and the “invading” African Union troops.
Al-Shabab recently gained control of several towns in southern Somalia following weeks of bloody clashes with Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a fighters and Somali government forces.
In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated that hundreds of civilians have been injured in fighting in Somalia in recent months.
The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and children, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September.
Compared to 2009, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-wounded women and children admitted to the hospitals.
Some 4,000 patients with war injuries, among them 1,100 women and children, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to one million people have lost their lives in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Somalia. Over 300,000 of the IDPs are sheltered in Mogadishu.
Most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions on makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/156989.html.
Al-Shabab has called on militants across the globe to support the group and to help it bring more areas under its control in Somalia.
At a ceremony commemorating the merger of al-Shabab and former rivals Hizbul Islam in Mogadishu on Thursday, al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage called on militants from all over the world to come to Somalia and join al-Shabab's war on the government and its allies, AllAfrica.com reported on Friday.
The al-Shabab spokesman said the union of Hizbul Islam and al-Shabab will inspire the fighters to redouble their attacks on what he described as Somalia's “apostate” government and the “invading” African Union troops.
Al-Shabab recently gained control of several towns in southern Somalia following weeks of bloody clashes with Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a fighters and Somali government forces.
In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated that hundreds of civilians have been injured in fighting in Somalia in recent months.
The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and children, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September.
Compared to 2009, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-wounded women and children admitted to the hospitals.
Some 4,000 patients with war injuries, among them 1,100 women and children, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to one million people have lost their lives in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Somalia. Over 300,000 of the IDPs are sheltered in Mogadishu.
Most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions on makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/156989.html.
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