Somalia's parliament speaker flew to Mogadishu from Kenya on Sunday to try to install the assembly in the capital, deepening a rift within the government over where the fledgling administration should be based, Reuters reported. The dispute has increased power struggles within President Abdullahi Yusuf's government, which has worked from offices in Kenya since it was formed there at peace talks last year. Yusuf and his supporters want to base the government outside the lawless capital, which they say is too dangerous. The government intends to disarm all militias in the anarchic country and establish an effective administration for the first time in 14 years. Its location is a key security issue for the Horn of Africa, a region long buffeted by Somalia's political turmoil. The speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, flew to Mogadishu to back his view that the capital should host the government and to protest at a parliamentary vote supervised by Yusuf last week to site the administration in two provincial towns, aides said. --more 2159 Local Time 1859 GMT
