摩加迪沙是最重要城市，是政府所在地，如果政府控制了除那小片地区的整个首都，将会大大鼓舞政府和支持者的士气，而对沙巴布来说，将会打击其控制该国的野心。

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has made a personal appeal to the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe for an end to what he called the persecution of Anglicans in Zimbabwe. As he left the meeting in Harare, Doctor Williams said he'd shown the president a dossier detailing the church's concerns and had urged him to take action. Robert Pigott reports.

坎特伯雷大主教威廉姆斯以个人身份对津巴布韦总统罗伯特穆加贝发出呼吁，希望结束他所谓的对津巴布韦圣公会教徒的迫害。在哈拉雷结束会谈时，大主教威廉姆斯说，他已向总统出示一份关于教堂的卷宗，并督促穆加贝尽快采取行动。罗伯特皮高特报道。

Doctor Williams said he'd come to Zimbabwe with the hope of negotiating with Mr Mugabe. He said he'd used the two-hour meeting to ask in the clearest possible terms that the president use his powers as head of state to put an end to all unacceptable and illegal behaviour. The encounter followed Doctor Williams' pointed attack on Mr Mugabe's stewardship of Zimbabwe in a sermon to some 15,000 Anglicans yesterday, in which he condemned the lawlessness that characterised the way it was governed.

威廉姆斯说，他来津巴布韦，是希望同穆加贝进行协商。他说，在这两小时的会谈中，他已同总统讲清所有条件，要求他利用自己作为国家元首的权力，结束所有这些难以接受的非法行径。威廉姆斯昨天对15,000名圣公会教徒布道讲话，他对穆加贝对津巴布韦的管理进行尖锐的批评，他谴责政府的管理不讲法治。