Somalia:President reconciles with Islamist rebels

Mogadishu 11 Fabaury 2009 Waagacusub Media

Somalia’s new president Sharif Sheik Ahmed is reported to have reached an agreement in secret talks with Yousuf Mohamed Siad Indha-Adde, former warlord, but now an Islamist leader linking to the Islamic wing based in Asmara, Eritrea, reports confirmed Waagacusub Media.

The meeting, which last for two hours, happened in Mogadishu’s presidential house under the protection of African Union Peacekeepers before the president left for Djibouti to announce a new prime minister to form a unity government.

During the talks, President Ahmed and Indha-Adde made telephone contacts with Sheik Hassan Aweys who is now in Asmara but no information yet on what they raised in their talks.

Hassan Turki, a leader of Raskamboni camp, an Islamist group of Islamic Party, who refused to meet with president Sharif Sheik Ahmed in Villa Somalia but Turki met with the traditional Hawiye Council and Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade, a parliament member who goes between both sides.

Spokesman of Hawiye elders Ahmed Dirie Ali told Waagacusub Media that most of the differences resolved and confirming the meetings with Hassan Turki and Hassan Mahdi, Islamic Party spokesman both in Mogadishu.

An officer of Islamic Courts Union who requested not to be named told Waagacusub Media that President Ahmed also had a telephone conversation with the Islamic Party leader Omar Iman Abubakar who recently declared war with the government.
By Dahir Abdulle Alasow

dahiralasow@yahoo.com

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