DJIBOUTI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Somalia's parliament voted on Wednesday to extend its mandate until August 2011 and began swearing in new members from the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS).
The moves showed politicians in the Horn of Africa nation are pressing ahead quickly with a U.N.-brokered reconciliation process being hosted in neighbouring Djibouti, and make it more likely a new president will be elected there this week.
The previous Western-backed government failed to establish stability in a country where more than 16,000 civilians have been killed in the past two years. The chaos onshore has allowed piracy to flourish in Somalia's waters more..http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LS231477.htm
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