The Somali government on Thursday said it would introduce a comprehensive plan to reform its security forces, promising to carry out a new drive to pacify the restive Somali capital Mogadishu and spread its authority throughout the war-torn Horn of Africa country.
Speaking at a news conference in Mogadishu, Somali government spokesman Abdelkadir Mohamed Walayo announced the plan which he said was adopted at the weekly cabinet meeting.
"The Somali government will reinvigorate National Plan for Security and Pacification of the country and that is part of the overall plan to reform Somali security forces and all the law enforcement agencies," Walayo told reporters.
The Somali government announced the creation of a new Commission for Security and Reform of the Armed Forces to ensure that the security plan by the Somali government, which has been fighting counter-insurgency since its creation, was followed through.
The spokesman also announced a replacement for the assassinated Somali National Security Minister. The new Minister for National Security, Abdulahi Mohamed Alim, was presented at the weekly cabinet meeting.
The Somali government promised to do all it can to make sure that the two abducted French security experts are released. The French nationals were taken from their hotel rooms in the south of Mogadishu by unknown gunmen who handed them over to the insurgent groups.
The Somali government, which is struggling with a deadly insurgency by Islamist rebel groups who now control much of the south and center of Somalia, condemned the recent announcement by the hardline Islamist Al-Shabaab group to ban three UN aid agencies from operating in the country.
The radical group accused the UN agencies, the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), the UN Development Program (UNDP), the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), of being "enemy of Islam and Muslims".
The Somali government since its creation in 2004 has been beset by armed opposition groups who want to topple it and establish an Islamic state in Somalia, implementing a stricter form of Islamic Sharia law.
Source: Xinhua
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