Defense Ministry is Charged With Failing to Help Govt Forces

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16 June 2011 London-Nairobi — The growth of piracy off the coast of Somalia from an occasional nuisance to shipping into a multi-million-dollar criminal enterprise has another, often deliberately overlooked cost: the worsening violence meted out to thousands of captured crew members. "There definitely has been a change, and we don't know why," Pottengal Mukundan, Director of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), told a June meeting on the subject in London.

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

17 June 2011

Beletweyne — Somali military officer on Friday charged the minister of defense with failing to help and take care of the government forces in Hiran region in central Somalia.

Adam Abdi Isse, Somali military officers in Hiran, said in an interview with Shabelle Media Network that they are fighting against Al shabaab, but the ministry did not do anything to underpin them in the face of their antagonists.

He said it is necessary the government to send more military and food support to the Somali military forces in the region to continue fighting until they purge Al shabaab from the region entirely.

Mr. Isse admitted that the minister of defense Abdihakim Hajji Mohamoud Fiqi gave contacts the government officers there, but not further.

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Defense Ministry is Charged With Failing to Help Govt Forces