Top Somali Islamist 'surrenders' One of Somalia's Islamist leaders has given himself up to the Kenyan authorities, a Kenyan police source has told the BBC. Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, seen as a moderate, surrendered in the north-eastern Kenyan town of Wajir, the policeman said. The US and the UN have urged the Somali government to seek reconciliation with moderate Islamists, such as Mr Ahmed. The Islamists were driven out of the capital, Mogadishu, last month. Ethiopian forces helped the government oust the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), who had taken control of much of southern Somalia. But the government says...
