| Somalia's prime minister, lawmakers and members of his cabinet returned home Saturday and began the work of governing after spending months of exile in neighboring Kenya because Somalia was considered too unsafe. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi arrived in the southern Somali town of Jowhar, about 60 miles northwest of the capital Mogadishu, to relocate a seven-month old government from the Kenyan capital, said Yusuf Ismail, a government spokesman. Hundreds of Somalis lined the road to the airport to welcome Gedi, chanting slogans in support of the government's return. Somalia has been without a central government since clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Warlords then turned on each other, and the country of 7 million plunged into chaos. |