Aweys
Osman
Yusuf
Mogadishu
14,
July.07
-
Somali
soldiers
raided
Simad
institute
in
north
of
the
capital,
Mogadishu,
on
Saturday,
seizing
three
foreign
teachers
who
were
on
duty
when
the
soldiers
entered
the
classrooms
and
arrested
them.
One
of
the
managers,
Yusuf
Moalim
Ahmed,
told
Shabelle
that
two
Ugandans
and
one
Kenyan
were
extracted
taken
out
of
the
institute
while
performing
their
obligations.
"A
number
of
Somali
military
troops
came
inside
Simad
institute,
telling
the
principal
that
they
were
going
to
detain
the
foreign
teachers
for
questioning.
They
entered
the
classrooms
and
took
the
three
teachers
away,"
he
said,
expressing
that
they
made
contacts
with
Paddy
Ankunda,
AU
army
spokesman
in
Mogadishu.
"We
are
now
going
to
meet
Ankunda
and
we
are
going
to
ask
the
Ugandan
troops
to
try
to
talk
to
the
government
about
these
people
who
were
civilians
working
in
Mogadishu,"
he
said.
He
has
also
indicated
that
a
number
of
guns
have
been
confiscated.
"The
weapons
were
licensed
and
were
there
for
protection
since
we
have
foreigners
operating
in
our
institute,"
he
said.
Institutes
and
universities
in
Mogadishu
have
always
hired
outside
teachers,
but
most
of
the
foreigners
left
the
country
during
and
after
of
the
Ethiopian
led
the
massive
military
offensive
that
ended
the
six-month
rule
of
Somalia's
Islamic
Courts
Union
and
installed
the
interim
government
in
Mogadishu.
The
news
comes
as
the
largest
number
of
Somali
and
Ethiopian
troops
have
been
evident
in
the
streets
of
the
capital,
stopping
and
searching
cars.
Hundreds
of
families
could
be
seen
Saturday
fleeing
the
neighborhoods
closer
to
the
site
of
the
conference
to
areas
outside
the
capital.
Some
of
them
interviewed
by
Shabelle
said
they
heard
rumors
that
insurgents
would
launch
their
last
fighting
against
the
Ethiopian
troops
and
the
Somali
transitional
government.
"Families
living
in
my
neighborhood
fled
this
morning
because
they
said
they
were
sure
that
series
of
bombings
would
happen
when
the
conference
begins
and
so
we
are
traveling
to
Balet
Weyn
(central
province
of
Somalia).
We
can
not
live
under
constant
fear
of
death,"
said
Abdiyo
Haji,
a
mother
of
seven,
fleeing
Ali
Kamin
neighborhood |
