The Cairo-based Arab League (AL) called on Wednesday for ceasefire in Somalia and dialogue to resolve the differences and reach a comprehensive reconciliation in the war-torn country.
The General Secretariat of AL asked all parties in Somalia to stop all kinds of fighting and all forms of violence, to avoid more scourges to the country and the people.
"Unfortunately, we monitor the situation in Somalia and see scores of casualties and injured Somalis and displacing thousands," and we condemn the armed assaults, the General Secretariat of AL said in a statement.
The fighting between pro-government forces and Islamist insurgent fighters in Somalia broke out last Thursday and escalated over the weekend, claiming the lives of nearly 150 and wounding more than 400, according to a local humanitarian organization.
Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has vowed to take a harder stance to the insurgents in recent weeks, as the latter have continued their attacks.
The Somali government, which now controls almost one third of Mogadishu and a couple of towns in central Somalia, is struggling to exert its authority in the capital as well as southern-central provinces of the African country.
Somalia, with a population of 8 million, has experienced constant conflict since the collapse of its central government in January 1991.
Source: Xinhua
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