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Somali warlords agree joint army but gunmen clash
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 01 - 2007


Somali warlords agreed on
Friday to merge their forces into a new national army to tame
the anarchic nation, but fighting outside the presidential
palace where they met showed how hard that task will be, Reuters reported.
Warlord gunmen trying to force their way inside fought
Somali troops and the shootout -- the kind of clash commonplace
in Mogadishu for the last 15 years -- killed a handful of
people.
It underscored the huge challenge President Abdullahi
Yusuf's fledgling government faces to bring peace and security
to the Horn of Africa nation after ousting Islamists who had
held the capital and the south for half a year.
"The warlords have promised to hand over their weapons and
militias to the government," government spokesman Abdirahman
Dinari said, adding that a committee had been formed to work out
details of what many see as a key step in calming Somalia.
Dinari said warlord gunmen tried to force their way inside
Villa Somalia, the compound of former President Mohamed
Siad Barre until his 1991 overthrow ushered in anarchy.
"Fighting ensued. It went on for nearly four minutes," he
said. Two militiamen were killed and four wounded, Dinari said,
while a warlord ally who declined to give his name said seven
warlord gunmen died and 11 were wounded.
The villa, where Yusuf came on Monday in his first visit to
the city since 1994 despite being elected president two years
ago, is protected by Ethiopian and Somali government troops who
ousted the Islamists in a lightning offensive late in December.
The Islamists, who wanted to impose sharia law, had driven
out the warlords from much of southern Somalia after taking
control of Mogadishu in June following four months' fighting.


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