Somalia: New militants of Hizbul-Islam join Somali government091017

Reliable reports from Bondere districts in Mogadishu, a stronghold of Hizbul-Islam says that new militants of Hizbul-Islam which is one of the strong rivals of the current Somali Transitional Federal Government led by President Sheikh Shariff Sheikh Ahmed have on Saturday joined the Somali government.

The Somali government and that of Hizbul-Islam were in trenches which were in range wise close, and after a negotiation with the Somali government the forces of Hizbul-Islam have joined the Somali government soldiers, and the two forces are intermingle, and are exchanging laughers, and these militants will meet their fellow Hizbul-Islam militants who have some few days ago joined the Somali government”

said the officer leading these militants of Hizbul-Islm who have joined the Somali government on Saturday in condition of anonymity to Somaliweyn radio.

This officer has evaded to say the exact number of these militants with him, but declared that they are from now onwards Somali government soldiers, and will wholeheartedly support the Somali government soldiers in power and in logistically.

In the beginning of October there had been severe clashes between the two strongest opponents of the Somali government (Al-Shabab martyrs and Hizbul-Islam over the control of the southern seaport town of Kismayo 500km south of Mogadishu the Somali capital, although Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys the Chairman of Hizbul-Islam has said that there is negotiation between them and Al-Shabab, which is underway

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