[dehai-news] (GO) ARS members based in Erirea, Djibouti mends differences After talks in Yemen


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From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 11:14:23 EDT


After talks in Yemen, Somalia's opposition alliance mends differences

15 Jul 15, 2008 - 7:35:46 PM
 
 
SANAA, Yemen July 15 (Garowe Online) - Somali opposition members have
been holding private talks in Yemen over the past few days, with a
spokesman saying that an agreement had been reached to mend differences
within the opposition.
 
Sheikh Yusuf Ali Aynte, a spokesman for the Islamic Courts, told the BBC
Somali Service during a Tuesday interview that the meetings in Yemen
have helped "end differences" among opposition leaders within the
Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS).
 
A public dispute among ARS leaders - dominated by Islamists - surfaced
after ARS Chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed signed a peace pact on
June 9 with Ethiopian-backed Somali Prime Minister Nur "Adde" Hassan
Hussein.
 
According to that agreement, a 90-day ceasefire will be implemented
across Somalia and Ethiopian troops will withdraw by October, when they
are replaced by a "sufficient" number of United Nations peacekeeping
troops.
 
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, an Eritrea-based Somali Islamist leader and
an ARS member, rejected the peace agreement and accused Sheikh Sharif of
violating ARS bylaws.
 
The dispute divided the ARS into two wings - one based in Eritrea, where
the alliance was founded last year, and the second group based in
Djibouti.
 
By early July, delegations from Eritrea and Djibouti were pouring into
Yemen for proposed peace talks among the ARS wings. Insiders tell Garowe
Online that rebel commanders flew from Mogadishu to participate at the
talks in Yemen.
 
It is not clear whether or not Eritrea-based ARS members have accepted
the June 9 peace agreement, but insurgent violence has continued in
Somalia nonstop since that agreement was signed.
 
Source: Garowe Online

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