Somalia: Peace Talks Expected to Resume

Nairobi — The Somali national reconciliation conference is expected to reconvene this weekend in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after a three-week hiatus, a member of its organizing committee told IRIN.

The talks were adjourned after the reading of a draft charter - an interim constitution - "so that Somali legal experts and a Kenyan constitutional lawyer could harmonise the different views "and come up with a clean document," said James Kiboi of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) technical committee which is steering the talks.

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