DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Tanzania has joined nine other African countries in recognizing and pledging full cooperation with the new Somali government for maintaining peace and building the Horn of Africa country.

    Tanzania wished Somalia all the best in its process of nationalhealing, unity and reconstruction, local newspaper Sunday News quoted Tanzanian Foreign Minister Jakaya Kikwete as saying on Saturday.

    The other African countries that have recognized the new Somaligovernment included Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan and South Africa.

    Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was sworn in as the new transitional president of Somalia on Thursday in Kenya's capital Nairobi, the venue of the Somali peace talks. Enditem