June 8, 2005
HAPPY ENDING?:
Somalis to leave Kenya next week (BBC, 6/08/05)
Kenya says it is providing planes to fly home members of Somalia's government in exile, who have been in Kenya for nearly three years.Posted by Orrin Judd at June 8, 2005 12:00 AMKenya's ambassador to Somalia told the BBC that final payments had been made to Somali MPs and they would be repatriated on Tuesday after a party.
If the Somalis do leave, it will be the first time their government has been based inside the country since 1991.
"Everything that begins has to end," said Mohammed Abdi Afey.
President Abdullahi Yusuf was elected last October by the transitional parliament based in Kenya after two years of talks aimed at ending 14 years of warfare and anarchy.
If the parliament had an army they used to crush the rebels and arrived in Mogadishu in triumph, then it'd be a happy ending. But they're merely a debating society that the men with guns have decided to stay for a while.
Posted by: Chris Durnell at June 8, 2005 11:26 AM