Eritrea says ex-Somali speaker in country for talks
Reuters AlertNet, UK - April 5, 2007

Eritrea said on Thursday that Somalia's former parliament speaker and a deputy prime minister were in the Horn of Africa country to discuss ways to help Somalia out of its problems.

Eritrea's Information Minister Ali Abdu said Sheikh Sharif Adan Mohamed Nuur -- voted out as speaker in January for reaching out to the government's Islamist rivals -- and Hussein Aideed, had been in the country for about three days.

"We are talking with them about the way out of Somalia's problems and the bottom line is that Somalia's problems should be solved by the Somalis themselves," Abdu told Reuters ...