Last Collapse of the Interim Somali Government!

The political map in Somalia shows great spread to the Somali areas controlled by the Union of Islamic Courts and their allies, in comparison to those small areas controlled by the Somali government in Baidoa.

Somalia's interim government was formed two years ago to work for unity and bring stability to a country which had been divided among clan based militias since the fall of the Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991.

Although some militia leaders have given posts in interim government but some of them retain control over their own forces. This point makes the government too weak to handle its national integrity tasks.

One of those militia's leader who is the transport minister called on the interim government to leave its based headquarters in Baidoa. Mohammed Ibrahim Habsade told the BBC that militiamen would eject government members by force if they did not withdraw peacefully.

The two top officials of the Islamic Courts (UIC) flew to Libya where an African Union meeting is due to take place, BBC said. News sources speculated that Libya has invited Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys and Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to Tripoli to arrange talks between them and the Somali government.

According to what the BBC said, a long-delayed second round of peace talks began in Khartoum the capital city of Sudan at the weekend between the government and the UIC, which controls a large part of southern Somalia including the capital Mogadishu.

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