The Italian foreign minister has offered on Monday to help form an anti-terrorist police force for Somalia and urged other international donors to fulfill pledges of support for the government.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told reporters after meeting Somali prime minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (currently back in Somalia) that Italian government will fund to form a new anti terrorism police for Somalia to tackle growing extremists in the country.
“We offered prime minister Mohamed to form a very robust anti-terrorist police for Somalia,” said Frattini after their talks in Italy´s capital Rome.
He said the Italian police officers were ready to train such a force in the neighboring Kenya.
Frattini also confirmed that Italy was ready to give AMISOM money to help it train police in Mogadishu, and pay their salaries.
Somalia has not been under the control of a single national government since 26 January 1991, when military strongman Siad Barre was toppled.
