(Read my first post on the subject first)

Daily arms shipments are arriving in Somalia in violation of a United Nations arms embargo, a senior UN official has told the BBC. …

…the UN refugee agency has warned that unless a peaceful solution could be found, Somalia’s humanitarian problems would “increase tremendously”, AFP news agency reported. …

[Bruno Schiemsky, co-ordinator of the UN Monitoring Group] describes a growing build-up of arms inside Somalia with deliveries coming in by air and by sea on a daily basis. …

Somalia is struggling to emerge from 15 years of anarchy and violence which have seen it with no functioning government since the overthrow of Siad Barre in 1991. (”UN Fears New Conflict in Somalia”)

Last week, UN monitors released a report to the Security Council saying that they were investigating an unnamed country’s violation of an arms embargo through clandestine support for a local warlord group.

It is widely believed among officials of Somalia’s interim government and U.S Africa policy analysts that this country is the United States. (“Is the U.S. Government Fueling Civil War in Somalia?”)

On Saturday, the Islamists complained that Ethiopian troops had crossed into Somalia - a claim denied by Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia has supported the transitional president, and is determined not to see an Islamic state founded in Somalia.

Independent sources are now also saying that about 500 Ethiopian troops are indeed inside Somalia - just east of Baidoa.

With both sides re-arming, and credible reports of foreign troops inside the country, the situation in Somalia looks increasingly grim, the BBC’s Martin Plaut says. (”UN Fears New Conflict in Somalia”)

America has been equipping the warlords with weapons. These are the very same warlords who have been accommodated in Yusuf’s government as part of a power sharing agreement. These warlords include those who hold the portfolios of security, trade, religion, disarmament and reconstruction. Furthermore the US has also subverted any attempt to interrupt the supply of weapons to both sides. A United Nations report called for a tighter arms embargo on Somalia but this was rejected by the Security Council. The report stated that an unnamed country had been flouting the weapons ban to help local groups fight the Islamic militants. It said that Ethiopia was supplying weapons to Mr Yusuf’s interim government, while Eritrea was arming the Islamists

The American plan is to fragment the country into regions and then encourage the energy laden areas to cede and fall in line with US interests. This bears strong resemblance to America’s plan to divide Sudan. (”The Great Game in Somalia”)