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Somali president Yusuf arrives in Mogadishu-source
08 Jan 2007 09:50:30 GMT
Source: Reuters

MOGADISHU, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf entered the capital Mogadishu on Monday for the first time since taking office in late 2004, a government source said.

"The president has arrived in Mogadishu. He is now resting at Nasa Hablod hotel. We are now preparing his house in Villa Somalia, where he will be staying," a government source who declined to be named, told Reuters.
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Veiled women walk past a mosque under construction in the district of "Little Mogadishu", home to many Somali refugees in Addis Ababa, January 12, 2007. Food aid began reaching 6,000 Somalis on Friday trying to flee fighting in their homeland but blocked from entering Kenya, the United Nations said.