Peace marches in Muqdisho

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Peace marches in Muqdisho

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Mogadishu residents gathered in Tribunka Park on Thursday to rally in support of peace and reopening the streets and schools closed in the fighting.

The demonstration was organized by Somali students and women civil society organizations.

Students carried banners and placards and were chanting slogans against any more violence in Mogadishu.

The said they are tired of the escalating violence orchestrated by some insurgent groups, including al-Shabab which has left scores dead and the capital, Mogadishu unstable.

Headmasters of schools spoke to the demonstrators and called for the Somali government to reopen Wadnaha Street which closed when the Ethiopians entered Somalia in late 2006.

The deputy chairman of the Union of students in Banadir region Mohamed Mohamud said a lot of students are with out learning because of the closed schools in the capital.

Halimo Sheik Hussein, the head of a Somali women organization demanded every side that can help to reopen the streets and the schools to take part of it.

The demonstrators marched through Wadnaha Street which closed two years ago and their demonstration ended safely.

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Re: Peace marches in Muqdisho

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Whenever I hear of the state Mogadishu is in today, my stomach churns. From my understanding many of the teachers and professors are threatened and chased away by the wadaado. If this continues they will be no teachers left to teach anything!

I went back to Xamar for the first time in 16 yrs in the begining of 2006 (right before the ICU took over)... After that trip I was very optimistic, there were schools on every corner almost, I toured the then newly built MU campus and saw many good things. I came back from that trip all hopeful and considering my next trip, but in the intervening years all that was flipped upside down.
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