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Somalia: President Yusuf urges MPs to work together, end rifts
Fri. August 29, 2008 01:14 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf urged members of parliament on Thursday to work together and end rifts that have threatened to wreck Somalia’s interim government.
The Somali leader and his Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein signed a deal in neighbouring Ethiopia this week, ending a feud that began when Hussein sacked Mogadishu's powerful mayor, a key Yusuf ally.
"We have agreed that no one should interfere with the other's work," Yusuf told parliament in the south-central town of Baidoa. "The world is keeping an eye on us and the differences among us are known."
The split of the Somali top leaders had threatened to derail the implementation of a peace deal signed this month at U.N.-led talks in Djibouti.
The agreement, which has been rejected by hardliners, seeks the replacement of Ethiopian troops supporting the transitional government with a robust U.N. peacekeeping force.
Since the beginning of last year, over 8,000 civilians have been killed in violence. The conflict has also triggered a humanitarian crisis aid workers say is the worst in Africa.
A report this week said the number of Somalis needing aid had leapt 77 percent since January to more than 3.2 million.-Reuters
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