Negotiation to return the Somali government to Mogadishu failed
Somalia, Politics, 6/25/2005

The Somali President Abdullah Youssef Ahmad and the speaker of parliament Sharif Hassan al-Sheikh Aden are preparing to return back to their country, separately, following the failure of the negotiations they held in Yemen with the aim to reach an agreement on the condition of their return.

Sheikh Aden stressed that the negotiations between the two sides, which lasted for four days, arrived at a deadlock because of the differences over the deployment of foreign peace keeping forces in Somalia.

The US had urged the sides of the crisis to complete the return back operation quickly in order to end 14 years of chaos. The US Department Of State said that the Somali reconciliation operation is passing a grave phase and it is necessary to officially agree on a possible national plan over security and returning back to the homeland.

Certain sources say that it is expected that President Youssef will return back to Pontland area ( to the north east of the country) from which he descends. An area which declared a unilateral self-rule in August 1998. Youssef was the President of Pontland before he was appointed as a President for Somalia in 2004.

Meanwhile, Sheikh Aden is expected to return back to Mogadishu through Djibouti. Aden affiliates to a remarkable group in the Somali administration and the warlords, and he persist that the president of the country has to return back to the capital.

The prime minister Ali Muhammad Jeidi, one of the advocates for the government's residency to be in Bedawa and Jawhar cities, similar to the case of Youssef, returned back to Jawhar, 90 km to the north of Mogadishu on June 13 coming from Kenya where most of the Somali establishments have existed since more than two years.

Some 100 parliament speakers, led by Sharid Hassan and several strong war lords, returned back to Mogadishu to prove their view points that the capital is secure enough to permits the government to work there.

However, there is still a split over the place which will be its headquarters and whether Mogadishu, the risky place is to be the headquarters or Jawhar city.

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  Somali government starts its return from exile   (6/14/2005)
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