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Somalia: Ahlu Sunnah: Agreement with TFG has collapsed
1 Jul 1, 2010 - 5:40:20 AM
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GAROWE ONLINE
A power-sharing agreement signed between Somalia’s weak transition federal government and Ahlu Sunnah Wal-Jamaa, a moderate Sufi Islamist movement has officially collapsed, says the Sufi leaders.
Sheikh Muhammad Sheikh Hassan, the group's spiritual leader said the collapse of the agreement was perpetrated by the Somali government for including non-Ahlu Sunnah members into its implementation.
“We are declaring that the power-sharing agreement has collapsed because the Somali government awarded some individuals, who are not part of us, with the cabinet slots meant for Ahlu Sunnah,” he said.
“These people, who are awarded with the positions, are politicians, who don’t have anything to do with the agreement. But they main agenda is to derail the implementation of the agreement,” he added.
The leader, who led a section of his loyal followers into signing the agreement in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, has earlier warned against infiltration of power-hungry politician and warlords into the agreement.
The Sufi sect was promised to be allocated a number of ministerial and military posts within the transitional Somali government under the agreement in return with maximum support in the fight against the insurgents.
Ahlu Sunnah has been fighting the radical group in central Somalia and of late, its fighters were involved in joint military operation with the Somali government troops against insurgent forces in the restive capital, Mogadishu.
The fragile western-backed government is faced with internal wrangles between top leaders, which is threatening to lead it into the lane of disarray and ultimate collapse.
The impoverished Horn of Africa nation has been mired in civil war for 18 years, and the fragile administration controls only small pockets of the seaside capital Mogadishu with most of the country’s south and central regions controlled by insurgents.
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