After 10 Years, Police Back on Streets of Capital
More than 2,000 police began patrolling Somalia’s capital for the first time in 10 years as the fledgling government tried to take back the streets from militias.
Officers and 45 pickup trucks fitted with heavy weapons deployed at dawn in Mogadishu, police Col. Abdi Hassan Awaleh Qeybdid said.
The 1991 ouster of Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre, the president, set off a decade of fighting that left Somalia without a central government until last August, when 245 Somali legislators met in neighboring Djibouti and elected Abdiqassim Salad Hassan president.
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