Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org) - Negotiations are underway between Somali government and local people in the encompassing Bakara market, the main market in Somalia.

A meeting between the two sides was held on Tuesday between Somali Prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein who arrived in Mogadishu on Sunday, his first visit to Mogadishu after he was appointed as Somali premier on November and Local businessmen, say government official.

The businessmen asked Prime Minister Nur Adde, end the cordon of the market by the government forces.

They said that the Bakara has become a conflict zone on the fighting between government forces allied with Ethiopian troops against insurgents, said the source.

The Somali premier said that the crisis in the Bakara will be solved peacefully and asked the business men to show their commitment for peace and security in the market and not to co-operate with "those misguided "people.

The business activity in the market has increasingly declining and fighting claims life of many business people and cause property loss and damages, said Ahmed Ali, a local business man who works in the market as shopkeeper.

Stores and business places in market are almost empty after business people fled from place and relocated the business at Suuq Ba'ad, the second main market in Somalia and Elasha, 18km south west of Mogadishu, where more than 200,000 people who have displaced by the fighting in the capital sought shelter.

Both sides decided to resume talks on the next few days while business men insisted on their request to the Prime Minister Nur Adde to move the troops from area of Bakara market to resume the business normal.

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