Clan Offers to Pull Fighters From Capital
From Times Wire Reports
Warlords and lawmakers from a clan that controls Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, offered to withdraw 15,000 militia fighters to guarantee the security of a transitional government trying to return from exile in Kenya.
Lawmakers also pledged to disarm the fighters, demobilize others and turn over weapons and ammunition to an interim force that is to stabilize Somalia before a larger peacekeeping force arrives.
Somalia has been without a central government since warlords overthrew Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
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