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Government and opposition agree to observe ceasefire in Somalia |
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
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The interim government in Somalia and the main opposition groups have agreed to observe a ceasefire agreed in June during UN-brokered talks in Djibouti.
The ceasefire will come into effect next month and Ethiopian troops backing the government will start to withdraw.
The government and the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia say they will form a unity government.
Other groups - including Islamist militias - continue to fight against the transitional government.
They will not observe a ceasefire until Ethiopians leave the country.
Somalia's transitional federal government and the Islamist have signed what the UN calls a "ceasefire-observance agreement" - a reference to an earlier ceasefire that never came into effect.
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