Somalia's Premier Seeks Talks With Islamists

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's new prime minister will try to open a dialogue with Islamists to end an insurgency that a human-rights group said has killed nearly 6,000 civilians so far this year, officials said yesterday. Prime Minister Hussein, who formed his Cabinet yesterday, has vowed to reconcile the nation as it struggles to contain the insurgency. "The new prime minister will talk with Islamists and other opponents," a presidential spokesman, Hussein Mohamed Mohamoud, told the AP. Ethiopia came to the aid of Somalia's government last December to rout the Council of Islamic Courts militia.