http://www.raxanreeb.com/2014/10/somali ... als-visit/Mogadishu (RBC) Somali Government officially wrote to African Union and the Sierra Leone government as part of its peacekeeping mission in Somalia and told to halt the rotation of Sierra Leone army operating in Somalia in a bid to minimize the risk of Ebola to this country, Somalia’s Parliament Speaker Mohamed Osman Jawari said.
The Speaker clearly mentioned that Somali officials do not want see any officials from the Ebola-hit nations in West Africa including Sierra Leone visiting Somalia as far as the Ebola outbreak is there.
“To avoid the potential risk of transporting Ebola into our country, we have raised our concern to African Union and the government of Sierra Leone. We have written officially to these entities and told them to stop troops rotation and the possible visit by any individual from there.” Speaker Jawari said during his briefing to the parliament on Wednesday.
“We are driven by the fact that our people are very vulnerable to the spread of the such disease and we need to stand for the well being of our citizens, so that is why we need to repeat such calls.” he added.
On Wednesday, Somalia’s Federal Parliament raised the issue of Ebola Outbreak during the parliament session in which MPs suggested to launch a tough measures to tighten the country’s borders so that citizens from Ebola-hit countries could not cross into Somalia.
