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| Sharif Ahmed, Somalia President [Photo: Reuters] |
Somalia's president on Wednesday accused the international community of refusing to fund the creation of local security forces capable of tackling piracy and Al Qaeda-linked militants and urged them to pay up.
"The international community spends millions of dollars (because of piracy) and when you ask them to contribute to building forces on the ground they evade our request," Sheikh Sharif Ahmed told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a conference on piracy in Dubai.
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