Somali leaders say they are not ready to end their exile in Kenya because it is not safe to return home. Kenya has hosted a two-year peace process that led to the forming of a Somali cabinet last year. In a New Year message, Kenya's leader said Somali politicians should stop worrying about wrangles and instability and return to rebuild their country. But Somali Deputy Speaker Prof Dalha Omar said they were still struggling to win over some warlords in the country. "The difficult thing that we are afraid in to face is the security issue," he told Kenyan television. | "We could get hurt, those guys have guns!" |
He said they needed help from the international community to disarm the militias and to rebuild a country, which has seen its infrastructure destroyed. | No thanks, we did that once. Have you tried calling the French? |
Somali MPs in Nairobi have still to approve a new cabinet, after rejecting a previously appointed government.
In an address, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki signalled his growing frustration with delays in securing a date for the cabinet to return to the capital, Mogadishu. "They must return because we were making a government, not to stay in Nairobi, but to return home and reconstruct that country," he said. |