ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Talks on forming a new government in Somalia in a bid to end nearly two decades of bloodletting have failed, Ethiopia’s Woyanne foreign ministry announced on Saturday. More on Talks in Ethiopia to form a new Somali cabinet failed

The feuding leaders of Somalia’s transitional government are deadlocked in a dispute over cabinet appointments as Islamist rebel forces advance to within striking distance of the capital, Mogadishu. VOA correspondent Peter Heinlein reports from Addis Ababa, where Somalia’s president and prime minister met Ethiopian officials for urgent talks how to settle political differences and meet the rebel challenge. More on Somali Leaders Locked In Internal Dispute While Rebels Advance On Mogadishu