Mogadishu residents complain about Ethiopians

[Hiiraan boy]

(SomaliNet) Some of the people who fled the areas hit by the recent fighting in the Somalia capital Mogadishu are complaining about the allied forces of Ethiopia and Somalia who made their base in civilian houses during the war and still remain there.

These people are now in makeshift houses in the southern outskirt of the capital expressing worry about how they would return to their houses as the Ethiopian soldiers reside the area.

“We can not return to our house because it is resided by Ethiopian soldiers and I ask the Ethiopian forces to vacate the civilian areas and locate outside of the capital in order people have access to to their houses,” said an old man who declined to be named.

The areas made by the Ethiopians as military zone include houses alongside the Industry Road where people are not allowed to return.

Many displaced people who are facing more trouble in the outside of the capital are asking the transitional federal government to be given access to return to their homes

Meanwhile, the security forces in the transitional federal government along with the Ugandan peacekeepers continue to patrol through the capital to tighten the security and prevent any violence.

Government soldiers could be seen on the main streets in Mogadishu searching all cars for weapons.