U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went into talks Thursday with the embattled president of Somalia, a country experts fear is poised to turn into a global terrorist haven.
The meeting in Nairobi was the highest-level US meeting yet with Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed who the United States believes is the best hope of stabilising a nation torn by conflict for nearly two decades.
"The legitimacy of his election is something we want to recognise and (we want to) support him as he tries to assert governance over parts of Somalia that have been riven with conflict since 1992," Clinton told a public forum at the University of Nairobi.
"Our goal is to try and help create conditions of stability and the African Union has military forces in Somalia. They're trying to create areas of conflict-free zones," she said.
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