Somali And Kenyan Presidents Meet

Somalia's interim president is in Kenya for talks with President Mwai Kibaki and other top security officials. Meanwhile, Kenyan authorities have arrested and detained at least eight people at a border crossing, saying they could be fighters and financiers of the Islamic Courts Union attempting to flee Somalia into Kenya. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi.

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, and top Kenyan security officials gathered in the port city of Mombasa to discuss the security situation in volatile Somalia and how to prevent the conflict from spilling over into Kenya.

Ethiopian-backed Somali government troops are fighting the Islamic Courts Union for control of Somalia.

Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs Esmael Mohamud Hurreh tells VOA high on the agenda will be Somalia's bilateral relations with Kenya and an appeal by President Yusuf to help a Somalia Hurreh says is now free of the Islamic Courts Union.