MOGADISHU: Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement officially opened Mogadishu’s long-closed seaport on Thursday and urged businessmen in the anarchic country’s capital to support resistance against the Ethiopian-backed government.
Amid tight security, Islamist leader Shiekh Hassan Dahir Aweys told residents thronging the dockside his fighters were the only ones who could ensure stability.
“You businessmen will be businessmen no more if the country falls into the hands of others,” said Aweys, urging them to use the reopened port.—Reuters
