London, April 10, 2004 (SL Times) – Reports from sources close to the leader of Majerteenia, Col. Abdillahi Yusuf have said that he is having serious health problems. News initially reached us that he was in a coma and was airlifted to a hospital in the United Arab Emirates. But recently Abdillahi Yusuf denied those reports to the BBC Somali Service. He did admit though that he is going to the United Kingdom for medical reasons.

The colonel may want to fix his health problems in London, but it seems very likely that he will run into legal problems there because a case for the murder of Sultan Ahmad Mahammad Mahamud (Hurre) had been filed against him in the UK. Sultan Hurre was murdered on Aug.17, 2002 by Col. Abdillahi Yusuf's militia. Sultan Hurre's family contends that Col. Abdillahi Yusuf gave the order to kill Sultan Hurre.

Col. Abdillahi Yusuf's legal and health problems come on the heels of his failure to steer the Nairobi conference in a direction favorable to him.

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