The remaining "alliance" leaders are apparently defecting to the UIC, and so it goes.
Meanwhile in the transition government:
[Somali Transitional Federal Government] Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden said that 198 members voted in favor of a plan by President Abdullahi Yusuf's government to bring in peacekeepers from Uganda and Sudan.
The TFG, up until a week ago, had four of said warlords in its cabinet, and fired the lot of them for breaking a ceasefire signed in Kenya. The idea of it "restoring" anything is pretty brittle.
Here's a more complete background on the Islamic Courts Union.
:: posted by buermann @ 2006-06-14 08:41:04 CST |
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