SOMALIA: UN Team Meets Somalia’s New Rulers
The BBC News reports:
A two-member United Nations security team has arrived in the Somali capital to hold talks with Islamist leaders. It is the UN’s first contact with Mogadishu’s new rulers since they took over from the warlords a month ago. Earlier one of the defeated warlords surrendered, with some 100 fighters and nine armed pick-up trucks. Omar Finish was one of the key members of the defeated warlord alliance and had been holed up in north Mogadishu, after his comrades had fled the city. “The team wants to check security in the capital before UN agencies can resume their work here,†Abdirahim Isse, a close aide to senior Islamic leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, told Reuters news agency.