Ia menyatakan warga tidak menghadapi bahaya di Somalia, tempat tentara pemerintah didukung pasukan Etiopia menaklukkan gerakan Islam di semua kubu kotanya dalam gerakan tentara kurang dari dua pekan.
He said civilians faced no danger in Somalia, where government fighters backed by Ethiopian forces vanquished the Islamist movement from all its urban strongholds in a military campaign less than two weeks long.