MOGADISHU, July 15 (Reuters) - A major peace meeting opened in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday but was immediately postponed to Thursday while organisers waited for participants.

"Since there are some delegates who are absent, some of whom we expected to arrive today and others tomorrow, we have agreed to put off the conference until Thursday," the chairman of the organisers, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, told the gathering.

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