Algeria supports national reconciliation in Somalia

ALGIERS- The Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sent a message Tuesday to support the national reconciliation process in Somalia

• The Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sent a message Tuesday to support the national reconciliation process in Somalia in a message addressed to the President of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on the occasion of the national Day of Somalia, according to official sources.
  
      “I seized this opportunity to reiterate the support of Algeria to the national reconciliation process that you have committed to restoring security and peace in Somalia” writes, according to the Algerian press agency APS, President Bouteflika to his Somali counterpart.
  
      President Bouteflika also expressed support of Algeria “to all efforts of Arab, African and international levels to end the Somali crisis and stop the bloodshed of the Somali people brother.”
  
      A national reconciliation process was formalized on 18 August in Djibouti between the Somali government and a fringe of the opposition dominated by the Somali Islamists.
  
      Somalia is in civil war since 1991.
  
      The Ethiopian military officially intervened in Somalia end of 2006, alongside the Somali government to oust the Islamic militia that controlled for several months most of central and southern of the country.
  
      Since then, Islamist fighters who reject the Djibouti agreement, leading a guerrilla war against the Somali forces, Ethiopian and African Union (AU).
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.