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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia on Tuesday offered amnesty to former members of a radical Islamic group that ruled much of the country's south for six months last year, saying it was a sign of goodwill ahead of a planned peace conference.
The announcement came hours after the president's spokesman was shot and wounded in the neck while stuck in a traffic jam — the latest attempt on the life of a government official in the chaotic nation. He was later treated at a hospital in Kenya and released.
"The president has approved a proposal offering amnesty to militias who have been fighting the authorities for months and to release former fighters from jail," said Justice Minister Hasan Dhimbil Farah, reading a statement signed by President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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