DJIBOUTI, Jan 24 (Reuters) - It is time for feuding Somalis to ditch the concept of winner takes all and seek compromise to try and end nearly 20 years of conflict, the U.N. envoy to the Horn of Africa nation said.The international community is putting pressure on Somali politicians meeting in neighbouring Djibouti to form an inclusive government with the main Islamist opposition party and elect a new president next week.
"What I think has been missing in Somalia for the last two decades, or since the war started, is the idea of compromise. How could someone try to compromise, not to seek total victory?" asked U.N. envoy Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah.
A Western-backed interim government and its Ethiopian military supporters failed to bring stability to a country where more than 16,000 people have been killed in the past two years and 1 million others driven from their homes. more..http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LO458626.htm
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