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AFP Photo: Heavily armed Somali soldiers in Mogadishu, 11 May 2007. UN emergency relief coordinator John...

MOGADISHU (AFP) - UN emergency relief coordinator John Holmes arrived in the war-ruined Somali capital on Saturday to urge the country's leaders to protect civilians and allow relief aid to reach them.

"There is a serious humanitarian crisis and I want to come and see for myself, to talk to the authorities to try to pressure them on the need to do all they can to facilitate humanitarian aid," Holmes said.

"It is their responsibility to look after civilians, to protect civilians and at the very least to not obstruct aid," said Holmes, the highest-ranking United Nations official to visit Mogadishu in more than a decade.

But as his 10-vehicle convoy drove down the city's dilapidated roads, an explosion hit a vehicle about 400 metres (yards) from the UN compound in southern Mogadishu and killed four people, according to Paddy Ankunda, the spokesman of the African Union troops there.

Witness Ahmed Nassir Mohamed told AFP that two of the dead were government employees and it looked like "a planned attack against the vehicle."

Mogadishu mayor Mohamed Omar Habeb vowed that "those responsible for this attack will not escape the strong arm of the transitional federal government."

Holmes will also urge Somali leaders to work for a lasting peace and stability in the country and to appeal to foreign nations to assist thousands of Somalis suffering the effects of repeated violence, the UN said.

Nearly 400,000 people have fled Mogadishu since February amid intense fighting as Somali and Ethiopian troops battled Islamist and clan fighters. The latest fighting, in which hundreds of civilians died, abated at the end of April.

Numerous families who fled continue to live under trees, and the UN refugee agency has been organising relief deliveries to them, it said.

"It is a really seriously alarming situation that could get much worse," said Holmes.

His visit came a day after the UN envoy for Somalia, Francois Fall, met with the Somali president and the prime minister in Mogadishu and announced that the government had opened talks with all clans in the capital to seek a permanent peace.

The government is trying to cement its control in Mogadishu where it has faced insurgency since January, when Ethiopian troops helped it drive out an Islamist movement.

Holmes also said more troops would be sent to Somalia if the country became more stable, but warned that the troops alone cannot restore peace.

Of the planned 8,000-strong AU force for Somalia, only about 1,500 soldiers -- from Uganda -- have been deployed.

A national reconciliation conference is planned for next month but it has already been postponed twice. The government has said leaders of the Islamist Courts Union, which briefly held sway in the capital, can only take part as representatives of their clans, not of their movement.

Somalia has been without an effective government since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre sparked a bloody power struggle that has defied numerous attempts to restore stability.

Source: AFP

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