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Aid to Mogadishu “suspended”

    NAIROBI

    Italian special envoy to Somalia, Francesco Sciortino, announced on Thursday that international aid to Mogadishu will be withheld “until security conditions in the Somali capital improve”. “Armed confrontations between clans, kidnappings, destruction and sacking of property are preventing law enforcers from helping the population of Mogadishu,” the Italian news agency ANSA quoted Sciortino as telling journalists in Mogadishu. The envoy was in the town with European Commission’s Somalia representative Joao Duarte de Carvalho to foster talks and establish peace. They held talks with various politicians, members of civil society and public organisations to discuss the “role of the public in the Djibouti peace conference”. Faction leader Hussein Aideed refused to meet the two because “they represent ideas which would not be acceptable to our backers”, the Somali ‘Qaran’ newspaper said.

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