hawiye Clan elders and clerics want to mediate between Islamists and government

MOGADISHU - hawiye Clan elders and Islamic clerics are going to mediate between Islamist insurgents and the newly elected president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, officials on Monady.
Sheik Nor Barud Gurhan, a spokesman of hawiye Islamic clerics, who have been mediating between Islamist insurgents and hawiye (habar-gidir) Ahmed Derie Ali, the spokesman of Hawiye traditional elders, said on Monday they want to mediate the Islamist insurgents and the Somali government to solve the Somali crises through dialogue.The move came after the newly elected Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed on Sunday held meetings with senior security officials and local clan leaders in the capital Mogadishu over security and the need to open reconciliation talks with insurgent groups which are opposed to the Somali transitional government. President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, who arrived in Mogadishu on Saturday for the first time since his election, held "consultative talks" with ministers in the caretaker government, security the media, The Somali president also held talks with hawiye religious and clan elders in Mogadishu and both sides have agreed that the national reconciliation should continue and talks with the opposition groups should begin urgently. "We asked the president to keep on talking with those opposed to his government and accommodate everyone into the peace and he accepted it," Ahmed Dirie, said.Dirie said the president also accepted their offer of mediation between the government and the opposition, adding that the elders would try to get the consent of the opposition leaders for their mediation role. He said he was cautiously optimistic that "a solution would be found for the disagreements between the two sides".
Both Islamic clerics and clan elders expressed hope that the new government would work peace and reconciliation. Abdirisaq Adan, the advisor of the Somalia’s president said the government will restore peace and order in Mogadishu with in three months.Mogadishu is divided into two principal military zones—one controlled by the Abgaal and the other by the Habar Gidir from central Somalia, invaders Control Northern part Mogadishu ,Habar Gidir is sub clan of Hawiya. The Habar Gidir sore losers invaders of Mogadishu, Merca, Afgoye, Brava, and Kismayo ,they have been holding the Somali nation hostage Since 1991 the collapse of the central government ,Dark Day .history of Somalia .January 26, 1991 armed factions Terrorist drove Barre out of power, resulting in the complete collapse of the central government. Barre later died in exile in Nigeria. In 1992, responding to political chaos and widespread deaths from civil strife and starvation