Ethiopia to withdraw troops from Somalia

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By Tsegaye Tadesse

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia will withdraw its troops from Somalia by the end of this year, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.

Addis Ababa has sent thousands of soldiers to support the country's Western-backed interim administration, which has been fighting Islamist-led insurgents for nearly two years.

The Somali government wants a fully-fledged United Nations peacekeeping force to replace a small African Union (AU) force that has been unable to stem the violence.

Wahade Belay, spokesman for Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry, told Reuters his government had informed U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Jean Ping, chairman of the AU Commission, of its decision by letter on Tuesday.

Ethiopian troops have frequently clashed with the rebels, who control most of the south and launch near-daily attacks on government forces and AU peacekeepers in the capital Mogadishu.

Nearly two decades of chaos in the poor Horn of Africa country has created a breeding ground for kidnappings, banditry and rampant piracy in the busy shipping lanes offshore.

The fighting has killed 10,000 civilians since early 2007, driven more than a million more from their homes and left more than three million Somalis in need of emergency food aid.

In the latest violence, at five people were killed on Thursday when assailants tossed grenades into a busy market in Baidoa, the central town where Somalia's parliament sits.

(Writing by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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