The USA is trying to micro-manage pressing for broad-based political talks; it even criticised the sacking of Parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan who had opened negotiations with the Islamic Courts regime prior to its ousting in December...
The ban and Ethiopia's involvement are strongly opposed by the Speaker of Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan (Rahenweyne) an old adversary of the President and the Prime Minister who has taken refuge in Djibouti with 21 MPs...