Political deadlock in the weak Somali transitional federal government has added to international anxieties about Somalia’s deteriorating situation. The Security Council restates its sad anxiety about the ongoing insecurity in Somalia, which has led to a massive amount of problems counting insecurity and humanitarian crisis. UN-backed transitional federal government has recently overtaken strategic areas in Mogadishu city as well as the regions of Gedo and Lower Jubba from the Islamist insurgents, and the Western-backed federal government’s mandate runs out on August 20, 2011.
Recent battles between the Somali government troops with support from AU forces, against insurgents, conquered several positions in Mogadishu which were earlier in the hands of the rival. Islamist factions. President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has not spoken with the speaker of parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden since February. Rival parties are in dispute over how to systematize an election for the new administration and the government still can’t provide civic services in the areas it controls. Parliament has moved to extend its mandate by three years and the government has decided to suspend elections for one year.
The Security Council said in a statement that it strongly condemned both sides for extending their own mandates and it also called for urgent reforms to strengthen the transitional writing of a new constitution and providing basic services, and for elections for president and parliament speaker to be held before the August 20 transition deadline.
Source: Newstime Africa
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