31.   Clan elders were unrepentant over the sentences, the paper added.

32.   Two European businessmen abducted by Somali bandits in the northwestern town of Bossasso four days ago were freed Sunday after intervention by clan elders, UN sources said.

33.   Nur said the Ethiopian government had arrested hundreds of ONLF supporters, including clan elders, for refusing to be sympathisers of the EPRDF government.

34.   North Mogadishu was calm overnight after the fighting subsided following mediation by clan elders and Moslem clergymen.

35.   Some clan elders had signed a peace accord, the reports said, but others had refused to subscribe to it.