Some 1,700 Ugandan African Union Peacekeeping soldiers in Somalia arrive back home at the Entebbe Airbase in 2008 after a mission in Somalia. (AFP/File/Peter Busomoke)Somalia Leaders Race to Form Government, as Islamists Advance -- Voice Of America
Somalia's transitional leadership is struggling to form a new government, following the resignation of former president Abdullahi Yusuf, and trying to prevent Islamist extremists from taking control as Ethiopian troops withdraw. Somalia's two top leaders are on a whirlwind tour of East African capitals.
Somalia's prime minister and acting president flew from Addis Ababa to Nairobi as they try to shore up their weak transitional government and prevent a security vacuum as Ethiopia withdraws the troops that helped keep them in power for the past two years.
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