Ash-Shabaab guerrillas but by cities in southern Somalia

The Somali resistance groups, Al-Shabaab while doing exercises. (REUTERS)

Mogadishu (Reuters)-Somalia's militant Group, Al-Shabaab seizes Hudur, a small town in southern Somalia, following the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces and Somalia stationed in the area, said local residents.

Some reports from the area indicate petempur Ash-Shabaab arrived at Hundur just hours after Somali Government and Ethiopian troops leave and there was no fighting in the capture of important small town.

Hudur, the provincial capital of Bakool Region, has been under the control of Somali and Ethiopian Government troops over the past two years later, after Ethiopian troops crossed the Somali border to hunt down guerrillas in the town of petempur.

"Petempur Hudur in the hands of Al-Shabaab. Government and Ethiopian troops went last night (Saturday) and Ash-Shabaab came early in the morning, "said a resident of Hudur, which nobody wants to mention illegally, to Xinhua.

According to reports from Somalia's Bakool, and Ethiopian Government troops regrouped on the outskirts of the small town of Hudur and it remains calm despite the tense atmosphere. Residents have begun to flee their homes fearing fighting will take place between the parties.

It was the first important little town which is controlled by Al-Shabaab since they terdepak of most cities and towns in Central and southern Somalia, including the country's capital, Mogadishu, and the strategic port town Kismayo.

Ethiopian troops crossed the border and entered Somalia in 2011 to give support to the Somali Government forces and African Union peacekeeping in the country of the Horn of Africa.

Translator: Chaidar Abdullah

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The UN arms embargo on Somalia in part revoke

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What we are trying to do is to draw a balance between those who want the lifting of the weapons embargo and those who feel it's time yet to revoke the embargo of weapons. "

United Nations (Reuters)-the U.n. Security Council on Wednesday agreed to repeal a portion of the weapons embargo against Somalia over the past year to the Government in Mogadishu could purchase light weapons to reinforce the security forces in the fight against militants linked to Al Qaida.

DK with 15 countries approved unanimously a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the United Kingdom which also peacekeeping forces of the African Union for a year longer and reorder the UN Mission in the Horn of Africa country, Reuters reports.

The Somali Government's request for the removal of the weapons embargo and the u.s. supports fully the proposal, but other UN countries worrying about it because the African country is already flooded with a lot of weapons, some diplomats said.

"What we are trying to do is to draw a balance between those who want the lifting of the weapons embargo and those who feel it's time yet to revoke weapons embargo," said the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant told reporters. "It's a nice compromise and strong."

Weapons Embargo against Somalia imposed in 1992 to decide the flow of weapons to the warlords who toppled head of State a year earlier.

SECURITY COUNCIL resolution that imposed a prohibition on permanent weapons such as missiles, land-air, large calibre guns, howitzers, Cannon and mortars as well as rifles, anti-tank missiles, mines and guns of invisibility.

Somalia plunged into the throes of power and anarchy since warlords toppled warlord-dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. In addition to piracy, kidnapping and deadly violence also hit the country.

The new Government of Somalia under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who took office in September 2012, ended an eight-year transitional Western support littered corruption.

Al-Shabaab, which was allied with Al-Qaida inflames the war over the next few years in an attempt to overthrow the provisional Government of Somalia UNITED NATIONS support that is only mastered a number of areas in Mogadishu.

Washington called Al-Shabaab as a terrorist organization that has close ties with the Al-Qaida network led by Osama bin Laden.

The militia Al-Shabaab line and its allies attempted to overthrow the Government then led by President Sharif Ahmed when they launched a deadly offensive several years ago.

They faced fierce resistance from the pro-Government militia groups who oppose the enforcement of strict Islamic law in the region of Central and southern Somalia, which they mastered.

Al-Shabaab and other hard-line guerrilla group wants to impose strict sharia law in Somalia and also has performed the execution, execution-stoning and amputation in the southern and central regions. (M014)

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Aid workers abducted in Somalia

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25 October 2011 Last updated at 15:44 GMT Gunmen have abducted three aid workers employed by the Danish Demining Group in north-central Somalia.

The Danish aid agency said a Somali national was taken along with two international staff members taken - a US woman and a Danish man.

A Somali security official told reporters they were kidnapped near the airport at Galkayo town.

Earlier this month two Spanish aid workers were taken from a refugee camp over the border in neighbouring Kenya.

Since September, there have been a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in Kenya, which Nairobi has blamed on the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab.

The group has denied any involvement.

Galkayo is not in al-Shabab territory.

Clan fighting

The town straddles the border between Somalia's northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland and another district in control of the Galmudug clan, which is aligned to the transitional federal government.

The Danish Demining Group said the abductions had occurred at 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT) and investigations were ongoing.

Ahmed Mohamed, a police officer in Galkayo, told AP news agency the two were taken in the southern part of the town, in Galmudug.

Correspondents say Puntland is relatively secure compared with other parts of Somalia, but there was some clan fighting in Galkayo last month.

Few Western aid workers travel to Somalia for fear of kidnapping by militias who demand huge ransoms for their release.

The Danish Demining Group helps dispose of unexploded bombs and teaches communities about the dangers of land mines.

Somalia has not had a functioning central government for more than 20 years.

The current UN-backed interim government controls only parts of the capital, Mogadishu, thanks to the efforts of a 9,000-strong African Union force.

Last week, Kenya sent troops into southern Somalia in pursuit of al-Shabab militants it blames for the recent kidnappings on its territory.

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