Somalia: Lawmakers say deployment of foreign troops should be stopped

The deputy speaker of the Somali parliament, Osman Elmi Boqore called for to support the edicts of the clerics and their efforts for peace.


The clerics had previously stipulated that violence should be stopped to give the government time to implement the Islamic sharia law in Somalia and to ask AU forces to withdraw from the country.


MP Suleyman Mohamed Ibrahim says "the foreign troops can not bring peace in to the country and it is good to take the advice of the clerics,"


The deputy speaker indicated that a committee of clerics was appointed to prepare the proposal of the Islamic law to bring before the legislature and approve it.