Italy urges Ethiopia to leave Somalia
A senior Italian envoy has visited Somali's war-scarred capital Mogadishu, urging Ethiopian troops to withdraw and make way for peacekeeping by a strengthened African Union mission. Italian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Patrizia Sentinelli also urged rival Somali factions to turn a relative lull after weeks of fighting into a ceasefire and attend a reconciliation conference on June 14. Sentinelli said it must be "all-inclusive". Abdullah Yusuf, the president of Somalia's Ethopian-backed government, which evicted Islamists early this year, has insisted that Islamist leaders only attend the conference as clan representatives. Rome has offered 10 million euros for the AU mission but apart of Uganda few African nations have sent troops for the planned 8,000-strong mission.

