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Top Islamist surrenders to Kenyan authorities-sources
22 Jan 2007 11:36:00 GMT
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NAIROBI, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has surrendered to Kenyan authorities at the Somali border, Somali intelligence officials and Western diplomats said on Monday. Ahmed, considerate a moderate in the Islamist movement ousted from power by allied Somali and Ethiopian forces, surrendered on Sunday and was in Kenyan custody, they said.

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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer (L) talks to U.N. special envoy to Somalia Francois Lonseny Fall during International Contact Group on Somalia meeting in Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam, February 9, 2007. Western and African diplomats met in Tanzania on Friday to discuss reconciliation in post-war Somalia and a plan to send peacekeepers to bolster government efforts to tame the anarchic nation.


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