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| Africa Horn |
| Somalia PM meets with the Islamist financial supporter |
| 2007-09-08 |
| (SomaliNet) SomaliÂ’s Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Geddi, who yesterday paid unscheduled visit to Djibouti, secretly held talks with one of the key founders of the defeated Islamic Courts Union, according to the London based Arabic Sharqal awsat newspaper on Friday. The paper said it found that the PMÂ’s instant trip to Djibouti came when he had received a letter from Abukar Omar Addane, a well-known rich man who was among the key co-founders of the ousted Islamic movement, demanding face-to-face meeting in Djibouti under the auspices of the Djiboutian president Ismael Omar Gelle to resolve the outstanding problems. Premier Geddi was accompanied by his minister of foreign affairs Hussein Elabe Fahiye to persuade Haji Abukar, the former Islamist financial supporter to come back to Mogadishu to participate the second round of the national reconciliation congress in which its first round ended in the capital last week without tangible result. After the Djibouti meeting, Mr. Elabe will depart to the Italian capital of Roma to attend a conference due to be held there by the international contact group on Somalia affairs on Monday. The paper said the Somalia government will expect the Roma conference to produce effective outcome and it will demand the session to hasten the deployment of the African peacekeeping troops that already pledged. During the meeting, Mr. Elabe would put pressure on the international community to provide the needed fund for the peacekeepers designed to be deployed in Somalia to help the transitional government restore peace and stability in the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |