Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, a leader of Somalia's ousted Islamic movement rejected a U.N.-brokered peace deal between the government and an opposition alliance, saying June 10 that Islamic insurgents will continue to fight.

Somalia's government signed an agreement June 9 with an opposition alliance calling for an end to violence and the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops as the country tries to emerge from more than a decade of anarchy.

The agreement, struck during U.N.-led talks in neighboring Djibouti, is an important step toward ending an increasingly bloody Islamic insurgency. But it remains to be seen if the deal will be respected by hard-line members of the opposition, who have denounced those who took part in the talks.