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Mon 07 Jul 2008Somali premier calls for deployment of UN troops
The international community must deploy UN peacekeepers in Somalia without delay or risk worsening insecurity in the Horn of Africa, the country's prime minister warned today during a visit to Ethiopia.
Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein said the UN troops were needed to replace Ethiopian forces under the terms of a peace deal reached last month at UN-led talks in Djibouti.
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