African states calls on the government of Somalia to move to Mogadishu

Each of Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti called on the interim Somali government which takes Nairobi as a headquarters to accelerate moving to Mogadishu.

The Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi said concerning the return back of the interim Somali government to Somalia that this needs to be made as soon as possible.

Zenawi, who was talking to journalists in conclusion of a meeting with the President of Kenya, the prime minister of Djibouti, the Somali prime minister Ali Muhammad Jeidi in Addis Ababa, said "we will not leave the Somali government in Nairobi, it has to return back and we will give it the aid it wants." In January, the African Union approved the principle of deploying a force to support peace in Somalia and to help the new Somali government which is still in Nairobi instead of Mogadishu for security reasons.

The African Union assigned IGAD to organize the vanguard for this force. The 7 countries which forms IGAD are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda.