WASHINGTON (AFP) – Congo’s president and current African Union head Denis Sassou Nguesso hit out at US support for Somali warlords and expressed hope Washington would work to establish a government in Mogadishu.

“We think, and what we told president (George W.) Bush, that most important is to establish a government that must help the Somali people to have a real government,” Sassou Nguesso told journalists after meeting Bush and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

“We think that if this effort is needed, we have to move in this direction, in order that the Somali government can truly be established in Mogadishu,” he said, referring to the exiled government in Kenya.

“The presence of various groups, the warlords, is not a permanent solution.”
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