Mogadishu, (InsideSomalia.org) Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein arrived on Monday at the Aden Aden Adde Internationational Airport in Mogadishu.

The premier arrived in Mogadishu when the Somali President stays in the capital despite insurgents launched mortar attacks twice at the presidential palace in Mogadishu.

The president and the prime minister are to meet to discuss the security situation prevailing the capital, said government official.

The capital city witnessed huge numbers of government forces mobbed up at the streets of Mogadishu during the arrival of both the president and the premier or the other senior government officials.

Somali Premier Nur Hassan Hussein was in Belguim where he had talks with European Union senior political official then he was in Addis Abeba where he met Ethiopian diplomats and senior political figures from the African Union.

Reports indicate that there is difference between President Yusuf and his Prime Minister Nur Hassan on the issues of a dialogue with the opposition while the President repeatedly said that his government will not talk with radical figure in the opposition which he referred as terrorists.

The prime minister vowed that his government has a plan to talk with the opposition including insurgents fighting government troops in the streets of the capital.

One person was wounded Saturday as mortar bombs fired by insurgents fell near the presidential palace in Mogadishu while President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was inside, a security official said.

"None of them hit inside the palace."

Islamist insurgents have been waging a deadly guerrilla war, mainly in the capital Mogadishu, against Somali government forces and their allies from the Ethiopian military and an African Union peacekeeping force.

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