Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
16 February 2008
Mogadishu — Somalia's transitional government president Abdulahi Yusuf has returned to the capital following longtime nonattendance in Ethiopia on Saturday officials said.
The delegates led by the president have taken off from Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia have landed at the international Mogadishu airfield where the government officials welcomed him.
Soon after his arrival in the Somali capital Mogadishu The president and his delegates were driven to the presidential palace where he taking a meetings with some of the TFG officials police official Yusuf Dhumal told Shabelle English service.
Yusuf has been in Ethiopia starting on the time that Somalia's new cabinet appointed.
Mogadishu has endured more than a year of chronic violence stemming from the conflict between Islamist militants and Ethiopian-backed government forces.
Thousands of Somalis were killed last year, many of them caught in the crossfire as Islamic insurgents battled government troops and their Ethiopian allies. An Islamic alliance gained control of Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia for the last half of 2006, until Ethiopian soldiers supporting the shaky U.N.-backed government ousted them.
Analysts say that these mixed political signals in Mogadishu further confuse the public and remove their hopes for change and reconciliation after nearly two decade of anarchy and misery. For the first time in so long, the transitional government has someone seemingly willing to change the rules of the game, to sit down and talk with its opposition in a last ditch effort for peace its PM Nor Adde Regardless of the motivations, it is the best chance for Somalia to date.
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