SAN'A - A Yemeni mediation effort aimed at ending a dispute over the relocation of the new Somali government ended in deadlock on Friday, Yemeni government sources said. âThe Yemeni mediation broke up as the Somali president and parliament speaker are sticking to their stances regarding the new home of the Somali government,â a website run by Yemenâs ruling GPC party said.
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Quoting a source close to the talks, the website said the two Somali leaders would leave Yemen later on Friday for different destinations in Somalia.
The dispute emerged after President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed insisted that the exiled Somalian government set up in Kenya last year should be relocated to the northern cities of Baidoa and Jowhar instead of the capital Mogadishu for security concerns. However, the parliamentâs speaker Sharif Hassan Adan maintains that the government should move directly to the Somalia capital.
Talks between the two men sponsored by the Yemen government began last Saturday. Ahmed, backed by Prime Minister Ali Mohammad Gedi, refuses to relocate to Mogadishu because of insecurity in the capital which was the epicentre of bloody fighting between rival factions for the past 14 years.
Adan belongs to a powerful Somali faction that opposes Ahmedâs plans to relocate the government to Baidoa and Jowhar. |