Ousted UN envoy: Somalia’s politics could beget conflict

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.N. envoy who was recently ordered to leave Somalia says political tensions could devolve into conflict, while Somalia’s U.N. ambassador says his country embraces international institutions but not individual “conduct that has a detrimental effect” on the nation.
Both addressed the Security Council Thursday.
The envoy, Nicholas Haysom, didn’t directly address this week’s flap over his questioning of the arrest of an extremist group defector-