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Djibouti conference preparations continue

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    Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh has held talks with Arab League officials in Egypt and secured its support and assistance or his peace initiative for Somalia, Somali news organisations reported on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a committee of Somali intellectuals which met in Djibouti to work on proposals for the planned Djibouti peace conference on Somalia has asked the Djibouti government to delay the conference, which is set to
    begin on 20 April. The Somali group is due to hold talks with a Djibouti government commission charged with restoring peace in Somalia to address its request for a delay in the conference. The intellectuals recommended that factions, regional governments in Somalia and civil society organisations should all be represented, and that the selection of delegates should be proportional to the regions and clans they represent.

    A high-level Djibouti delegation was due to travel to Somalia in the weeks before the peace conference to brief the Somali people on what the Djibouti peace initiative is all about, Somali news organisations reported this week, citing Djibouti Foreign Minister Ali Abdi Farah. The delegation would first visit Mogadishu, but may face problems visiting Somaliland and
    Puntland, neither of which is backing the Djibouti initiative, they added. Meanwhile, tension is reported to be high in Bosasso, capital of the self-declared state of Puntland in the northeast, after the police killed two men in recent demonstrations in favour of the Djibouti peace
    conference.

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