London, June 21 (GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE): The British Government has said it will continue to send failed asylum seekers back to Mogadishu against advice from the Somali government and the United Nations.
Several European countries, including Britain, have been trying to sendback rejected Somali asylum seekers but some reports have claimed they arefailing to make it beyond a transit flight to Dubai because they are being abandoned by their escorts.
The European court of human rights (ECHR) recently issued an injunction against the Dutch government's attempts to forcibly send Somalis home to Mogadishu and southern Somalia, widely regarded as a warzone. A full ECHR hearing has yet to be held.
Somalia is nitish refugee welfare charity Asylum Aid saying it does not adviseforced row the source of the largest number of asylum applicationsto Britain from any country with 1,000 applicants coming between Januaryand March this year.
The `Transitional National Government' (TNG) in Somalia has written tothe Breturns for the `foreseeable future' because of the `existinginsecurity of affairs in the country'.