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Eritrea: Ex-Somali speaker in country to discuss Somalia Fri. April 06, 2007 11:45 am.- By Aaron Kirunda. - (SomaliNet) Somalia's former speaker of parliament Sheikh Sharif Adan Mohamed Nuur and a deputy prime minister, Hussein Aideed are in Eritrea to discuss ways to help Somalia out of its problems. "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," Eritrea's Information Minister Ali Abdu said. "They are the owners of their own destiny." Eritrea was widely accused of supporting the hard-line Islamist movement in Somalia that was defeated by Ethiopian and government troops in a war over the New Year. Asmara denies it. Aideed has been in the interim government since its inception at peace talks in Kenya in 2004. The Somali government considers the former speaker a traitor, but diplomats see him as a potentially strong figure for reconciliation talks, which are due in Mogadishu on April 16. Many doubt they will go forward because of the insecurity there. Some 124,000 people -- or a tenth of the Somali capital's population -- have left the capital since February as a result of fighting that followed the Islamists' ouster. —Reuters News Category: East Africa Latest Headlines Latest News Somalia: Somali pirates hijack second Stolt ship-of... Libya: 6 killed as gun battles break out in southeas... Nigeria: Militants threaten to renew "oil war" if a... Zimbabwe: Opposition chief Tsvangirai rejects SADC c... Philippine: Troops kill 10 Muslim rebels in the troub... Ivory Coast: Political leaders postpone November 3... Rwanda: Thousands protest against arrest of Rwa... Nicaragua: Thousands riot after Nicaragua local elec... India negotiating a $1.5 -billion arms deal with Isra... Sudan, Chad restore full diplomatic ties, exchange e... More News...