Ethiopia leaves key Somali town
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Ethiopian troops withdrawn from the key town in central Somalia linking a road between the two countries.
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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops trying to protect Somalia's fragile government went house-to-house searching for weapons and insurgents Wednesday, and authorities ordered the closure of three radio stations they accused of "supporting terrorists."
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Somalia's president has flown to Ethiopia for a medical treatment a month after being hospitalized with a chest illness, officials said Friday, creating more uncertainty for his volatile country.
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Somalia's government has ruled out peace talks with the country's powerful Islamic movement, citing truce violations, heightening fears of an all-out war in the shattered African nation.
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Militiamen loyal to the fundamentalist Islamic group that appears determined to rule Somalia are advancing on one of the last remaining commercial ports outside of their control, an official said Wednesday.
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People flee areas attacked in the Somali capital as moves to deploy peacekeepers are stepped up.
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A Somali minister and two deputies resign from the new government, tasked with ending years of anarchy.
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Ethiopia on Tuesday justified its decision to expel Norwegian diplomats arguing that Oslo was interfering in its internal affairs and destablising the Horn of Africa.
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Embattled Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi submitted a letter of resignation Monday to President Abdullahi Yusuf, apparently losing a long-brewing power struggle and throwing the government of the war-battered Horn of Africa nation into disarray.
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Somalia's Islamist movement warned arch-foe Ethiopia on Tuesday to withdraw troops from the Horn of Africa nation within a week or face war.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces took over   Somalia's strategic southern port city of Kismayo on Monday   after the warlord in charge of the region fled, an Islamist   source told Reuters.
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BAIDOA, Somalia -- Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town that Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime minister said yesterday as a top Islamic official promised to attack within a week unless Ethiopian troops leave.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair  left Ethiopia for home late on Thursday, a day ahead of  schedule, airport sources in Addis Ababa said.
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A Somali port is hit by deadly grenade attacks on Ethiopians believed to be about to risk the crossing to Yemen.
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The British embassy group kidnapped in a remote part of Ethiopia was set to leave Eritrea &quot;as quickly as possible,&quot; the Foreign Office said Wednesday, adding they had slept well after their ordeal.
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A delegation from Somalia's exiled government goes to the ruined and divided capital, Mogadishu, to pave the way for its return.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi of Somalia resigned yesterday after weeks of mounting tensions inside the Horn of Africa nation's transitional government and a power struggle with the president.