Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Wednesday said the differences between him and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein was resolved after more than a week of talks mediated by Ethiopian authorities in Addis Ababa, reports reaching here said.
The Somali president, flanked by the prime minister and the speaker of the Somali national parliament, arrived amid tight security Wednesday in the southern town of Baidoa, the seat of thetransitional national parliament.
"We solved everything between me and the prime minister, as you can see we have come here (in Baidoa) together," Yusuf told reporters at his residence in Baidoa, 250 km southwest of Mogadishu.
The president also condemned recent attacks on the houses of a number of members of parliament including the deputy speaker and a lawmaker whose son and a bodyguard were killed in a grenade attack Tuesday night.
Festering disagreement between the two senior Somali leaders escalated last month after Hussein sacked the mayor of Mogadishu, a close ally of the president, who reinstated the mayor in a decree revoking the prime minister's decision as unconstitutional.
Some pro-president ministers in the cabinet of Hussein's government resigned, accusing the premier of incompetence and misuse of state funds.
The two leaders are expected to brief the Somali national parliament Thursday about their agreement, the content of which has not been officially released.
Lawmakers are also due to debate and vote on the motion put forward by nearly 80 legislators seeking to remove the prime minister for alleged embezzlement of government money.
Source:Xinhua
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