Saturday, November 29, 2008
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An African Union panel on Saturday urged the United Nations to form a stabilisation force for Somalia, a day after Ethiopia announced it would withdraw its troops from the Horn of Africa state.
The Panel of the Wise urged the UN to authorise "without any further delay the establishment of an international stabilisation force which will build on an enhanced AMISOM (AU force in Somalia) and further the cause of peace".
The move is to "avoid a security vacuum that would compound the situation on the ground and seriously undermine the efforts towards lasting peace and reconciliation," the panel said in a statement.
Source: AFP, Nov 29, 2008