Qatar working against Emirates in Somalia

Indiana Khaled

Qatar maintains a destructive policy course in Qatar by maintaining support to the tools of terror and sponsoring a large number of state officials.

Qatar has recently given the go-ahead for Somali MPs, including the second deputy head of the Somali parliament, Abdullah Awad, to incite against the United Arab Emirates.

Awad called recently for reopening the Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Somali capital Mogadishu.

All the contents of the hospital, he wrote on Twitter, belong to the Somali people.

This came as the United Arab Emirates sent medical supplies to Somalia as the Arab African state battled the coronavirus.

Provocations

The Emirati newspaper, Emirates Today, revealed on April 18, 2018 that Somali authorities had seized an amount of money that was on board of an Emirati plane that landed in Mogadishu on April 10, 2018. The money would have been used in paying the salaries of the staff of the hospital and buying medical requirements for it.

The move, the newspaper said, was instigated by Qatar.

The hospital was opened in June 2015 with funding from the United Arab Emirates which carried out a large number of other development and humanitarian projects in Somalia.

The Sheikh Zayed Hospital was the only in Mogadishu that offered free medical treatment to Somalis. It used to receive over 300 people every day.

The United Arab Emirates had to close the hospital down in 2018 against the background of negative practices by the Somali government.

Dubious role

Somali MP Mahd Mohamed Salad lashed out at Awad for calling for confiscating the contents of the hospital.

He accused Awad of acting on behalf of Qatar.

These statements do not express the position of the Somali parliament, Salad wrote on Facebook.

He said the closure of the Sheikh Zayed Hospital would be a temporary matter.