Somalia seeks Sudan's support to maintain reconciliation

The provisional Somali government has asked the support of Sudan to help attaining reconciliation with the opposition groups.

News reports said the representative of the Somali President Youssef Hassan Ibrahim announced during a visit he made to Khartoum on Sunday that he had conveyed a message from the Somali President for the provisional phase Abdul Qasem Salad Hassan to the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir asking for coordinating regional efforts aiming at achieving reconciliation between the government and the opposition in Somalia.

Ibrahim indicated that a decision to this effect was adopted during the IGAD's summit conference which includes seven states from East Africa, The summit was held in November 2000 in al-Khartoum.

However, IGAD includes Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia and Sudan.