Somalia Green Party Somalia Green Party The Somalia Green Party (SGP) is the local green party of Somalia. It has an environmentalist focus. The SGP is a member of the Horn of African Greens in the Federation of Green Parties of Africa, which includes the national green parties in the other Horn of Africa states of Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The association has its headquarters in Mogadishu and Jilib in southern Somalia. Plans are also in the works to open up new SGP branches in the autonomous northern Puntland and Somaliland regions, as well as the southernmost Kismayo area. Additionally, the party has
2013 timeline of the War in Somalia recaptured the city. Initial reports indicate that 11 al-Shabaab fighters and 1 government soldier died in the battle. Continued fighting has also been reported in the city of Beledweyne. On October 21, the African Union appealed to the United Nations for an air and naval blockade of Somalia. The AU Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra insisted that such an action was necessary to curb the flow of weapons to al-Shabaab and other Islamist militants in the region, and also called for a total of 20,000 AU peacekeepers to be deployed to Somalia, up from the current deployment of