US Envoy Visits Somalia and Urges Truce for Capital
New York Times - April 8, 2007

The highest-ranking American official to set foot in Somalia in more than a decade returned from a trip there on Saturday conceding there were "significant problems" but saying "we have to have faith in the people of Somalia."

The official, Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, spent five hours in Baidoa, Somalia, meeting with top officials of the Somali transitional government, which has been struggling to gain control of the country ...