The transitional government holds the capital, Mogadishu, while the Shabab still runs a swathe of territory around it.The invasion will certainly hit commerce.
The Ethiopians, backed up by American intelligence and airstrikes, pushed out the Islamist forces and installed Somalia's weak transitional government in the capital.
The UN, which is pushing for a political settlement in Somalia through its UN political office for Somalia, has been accused of jeopardising its "honest broker" status by trying to build up the credibility of the weak transitional government in the capital, Mogadishu.
They can beg for help from a weak and divided transitional government in Mogadishu, the capital.
In the past week, insurgents linked to Somalia's ousted Islamist movement have waged withering attacks on Somalia's transitional government forces in the capital, Mogadishu.
The Northern Alliance has agreed to surrender exclusive power in the Afghan capital to a transitional government that will be "broad-based, multiethnic and fully representative," the standard that was set last week by the United Nations Security Council, an American envoy said today.
The bank's role is transitional, he says, until private capital markets develop long-term savings and lending instruments.Ms Rousseff champions industrial policy indeed her critics see her as more dirigiste than Lula, whose instincts are pragmatic.
Instead of trying to boost the "transitional federal government" in the capital, Mogadishu, the conference participants foreign and Somali say they will accept that the country is, for the time being, irretrievably broken into five or six zones of influence.
The neighbours who invaded Congo have mostly pulled out, the main rebel leaders have joined a transitional government in Kinshasa, the capital, and elections are supposed to be held in the not-too-distant future.
On Saturday, a crowd in the eastern city of Benghazi, the former rebel capital, ransacked the transitional government's headquarters, leading to the resignation of the government's deputy leader and the suspension of several Benghazi delegates.
