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In June 2008, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), led by Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur, and the 'moderate' wing of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS), led by Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, signed a peace agreement in Djibouti. The agreement, which can be considered the sixteenth major national attempt to resolve the Somali crisis since the country's collapse in 1991, was designed to end violence in and around Mogadishu as an important step toward stabilising the south-central region of the country.
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