Somalia PM: Major fighting is over

Somalia’s prime minister today said he does not expect any more major fighting against rival Islamic fighters and his Ethiopian military backer described the operation as within weeks of being completed.

With attention shifting to suspected al-Qaida fighters believed to be sheltered by the hard-line group, a security official in neighbouring Kenya said 10 foreigners who had fought with Somalia’s Islamic movement had been captured there and told interrogators that the militia had been doomed by internal rifts.