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Thursday, February 18, 1999 Published at 23:48 GMT
World: Africa
New beat for Somalia
Hussein Aideed, right, is one of the faction leaders behind the new force
A new police force has been deployed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after a break of more than seven years.
![[ image: Mogadishu - seven years without police]](/olmedia/280000/images/_282249_mogadishu150.jpg) |
| Mogadishu - seven years without police |
The new police chief, Colonel Abdi Hassan Awaale Qeybdid, said the force's main priority was to fight banditry.
He appealed to the people of Mogadishu to support its work.
He did not say whether the police would try to disarm militiamen still present in the city.
The police force was established late last year by the two main faction leaders, Ali Mahdi Mohammed and Hussein Aideed, who have formed a joint administration for Mogadishu.
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