Somalia’s opposition leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has declared that he is “hopeful” about the successful signing of a final peace agreement with the country’s Ethiopian Woyanne-backed interim government.
Speaking in Yemen, the chairman of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) told reporters Tuesday that Somali government officials and opposition delegates are expected to meet again next week in Djibouti.
“A final peace deal will be signed at the next meeting, which calls for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops TPLF and a nationwide ceasefire,” Sheikh Sharif said.
He indicated that a delegation from the international community, led by UN Special Envoy Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, will attend the Djibouti negotiations as observers.
Piracy and the facilitation of humanitarian assistance will be hot topics at the next meeting between Somali government and opposition delegates, some of who just returned from a seminar in South Africa.
Sheikh Sharif especially thanked Yemeni President Ali Abdalla Salah for supporting policies aimed at bringing last peace to war-torn Somalia.
Some rebel groups have refused to recognize the peace deal between the Somali government and the ARS, including an ARS faction based in Eritrea and led by Islamist hardliner Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys.
On Tuesday, insurgents attacked Somali-Ethiopian Woyanne troops who were conducting search operations in Mogadishu’s Huriwa district.
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TPLF was given a test of their medicine and they will be forced to pullout somalia. GOD knows what hapened to the AGAZIS who dared to invade somalia.
This Sheik Sherif Sheik Ahmed guy is an opportunist extraordinaire who is well known for switching sides frequently to grab power in Somalia, he was a member of the imposed parliament of Somalia put together in Kenya, when he saw the ICU win in 2006 he switched sides to join the ICU, then he was given the position of chairman of the ARS in their Asmara conference, during his travels to the middle east he was again bought by Woyanne’s masters and did everything he could to divide and weaken the Somali resistance, when that was not working anymore he openly betrayed the ARS principle of liberating Somalia and staged a fake reconciliation talks with the traitor puppet regime of Somalia, when that happened the ARS swiftly removed him from his position, the ARS forces are defeating Woyanne and their puppets in Somalia and now he is being used to fool the Somali people and talking about the withdrawal of the mercenary Woyanne military from Somalia, the withdrawal of mercenary Woyanne military will happen by force and the traitors to the Somali people will be judged by the people. This opportunist Sheik is doomed because he failed the Somali people twice.