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 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ethiopia's prime minister told parliament Thursday that he had sent military trainers to help Somalia's struggling government, but had not deployed a fighting force.
Meles Zenawi did not say how many trainers he had sent to Ethiopia's eastern neighbor, but that the move was in keeping with international efforts to support a transitional government seeking to establish itself in a country that has been largely lawless for 15 years.
"We have sent only trainers, who are soldiers," Meles said, in the first official acknowledgment that Ethiopia troops have been inside Somalia. "Other than this, the army has not entered into Somalia."
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