Somalia's transitional administration and representatives of rival factions signed a peace accord paving the way for a national unity government, but key leaders in the armed opposition immediately rejected it. The agreement called for the formation within a month of "an all-inclusive government ensuring equitable power-sharing amongst all the Somali clans", as well as disarmament under UN auspices. They agreed "to renounce violence as a means of settling political differences and to ensure cooperation with the international community in the eradication of terrorism." But Hassan Mohamed Nur "Shatigudud", head of the Rahanwein Resistance Army and co-president of the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council, immediately said his coalition took no part in the talks leading to the accord. Shatigudud's co-president Hussein Mohamed Aidid, whose faction controls part of the capital Mogadishu, said: "We reject it completely."
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