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MOGADISHU (AFP) - Despite a peace bid in Libya last week, Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid refused to recognize President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan as the head of state of Somalia. "Aidid and other faction leaders in Libya agreed with Salat to make peace as a group leader without recognizing him as a legitimate leader of Somalia," said Issa Mohamed Siad, one of Aidid's aides. Siad is the acting chairman of Aidid's United Somali Congress/Somali National Alliance (USC/SNA) faction, one of the strongest clan-based movements to have established territorial rule since the collapse of the Somalian central government in 1991. Salat, elected last month as Somalia's first head of state in almost a decade, had talks with Aidid in the Libyan town of Sirte under the auspices of Libyan leader Moamar Kadhafi. "An all-inclusive national peace conference will be held in Somalia soon to form a government," Salat added. According to Libya's official JANA news agency, Kadhafi, who said Libya is ready to help rebuild Somalia, then received the two men. Leaders of clan-based factions have ruled different parts of Somalia and battled for authority since the 1991 overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Many Somali civic groups and community leaders welcomed Salat's election in Djibouti last month by members of a new transitional assembly, which made him Somalia's first head of state since the 1991 ouster of Barre. Aidid, however, has been among a majority of clan-based faction leaders who have vehemently rejected the entire Djibouti process. These warlords, who rule different parts of Somalia, have battled for authority in the country since Barre's overthrow. Reports indicate that rival fighting among Somali clan-based factions has left eight dead in separate incidents in the capital and a southern town. In Mogadishu, unidentified gunmen killed four people Saturday when they stopped their car in a Bulohubey alleyway, which divides territory controlled by warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid from the fiefdom of Musa Sudi Yalahow in the south of the city. Those who died were members of Aidid's Habr Gedir clan. The killers also took the guns belonging to the deceased. Yalahow condemned the murder and promised to investigate. "I instructed the Islamic court officials to investigate the matter and punish those responsible for the killing. It is most likely the work of bandits," said Yalahow. |
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