Somalia: AU refuses Al-Shabaab claims

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Somalia: AU refuses Al-Shabaab claims

By M.A.Farah

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By M.A.Farah Mogadishu (Sunatimes) The statement by the Al-Shabaab group in Somalia saying the hospitals run by the African Union peacekeepers are using expired medicines and spreading diseases to the Somali public is untrue, the AU forces spokesman Major Barigye Bahouku said on Wednesday.

Bahouku refused the group’s claim and said the only thing that Al-Shabaab wants to cut the life line for the civilians and are trying to stop them from receiving the medical aid provided by the African Union troops.

“They only know to displace the people. Al-Shabaab has already banned the international aid workers from their strongholds so we can understand that it is their justification to lie about us and tell them about wrong stories.” Bahouku said.

Today’s AU reaction came when Somalia’s hardline insurgent group warned Somali people to visit the AU run hospitals in Mogadishu.

The group’s representative in the capital Mogadishu, Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hussein, told the local media that the African Union troops give people medicines that might spread deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS.

7,200 peacekeeping troops from Uganda and Burundi are now in Mogadishu to protect the weak western backed transitional federal government.

By Abdi Farah

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