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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Warlords and civilians installed a council Sunday to govern Somalia's capital, an action that further fragments the nation but could bring the city under the control of a single group after 14 years of anarchy.
The swearing-in of the 64 new legislators formalized a break with Somalia's transitional government, which was formed last year under President Abdullahi Yusuf after lengthy peace talks in Kenya.
Somalia has been without a central government since warlords in 1991 ousted a dictatorship. They then turned on each other, carving the nation of 8.2 million into a patchwork of fiefdoms.
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