AFP - Rescuers are clawing through mud and debris with their hands, hoes and heavy equipment in eastern Ethiopia, searching for hundreds of people missing after deadly floods hit a provincial town.

Reuters - The death toll from flash flooding that swept through an eastern Ethiopian town over the weekend has risen to nearly 200 people and 300 others were still missing, police said on Monday.

AP - Aided by an Ethiopian mediator, the leaders of Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed government have resolved their differences over how to deal with an increasingly strong Islamic militia that controls much of the south, officials said Sunday.

Reuters - Floods killed about 150 people in eastern Ethiopia when heavy rains caused a river to burst its banks, sending a wall of water into a town that killed most of the victims as they slept, police said on Sunday.

At least 100 people are dead and officials fear several hundred could be after a river burst its banks in eastern Ethiopia. The flooding happened in the middle of the night when most residents were sleeping.

AP - More than 100 people were killed by flooding Sunday in a town in eastern Ethiopia, a government official said.

AFP - At least 129 people were killed overnight in flash floods in eastern Ethiopia after an intense, sudden downpour pounded the region, sweeping away many of the victims in their sleep, police have said.

AP - An Ethiopian official said more than 100 people were killed by flooding Sunday in a town in eastern Ethiopia.

AP - Somalia's prime minister on Saturday accused Egypt, Libya and Iran of providing weapons for Islamic militants who have seized control of much of this country's south.

Thousands of outraged Somali demonstrators promised to fight troops from Somalia's neighbor, Ethiopia. The Ethiopians have sent troops across the border to protect Somalia's weak government from Islamic militants.

AP - A leader of the Islamic militia controlling most of southern Somalia said Monday he will produce "corpses or POWs" to prove that neighboring Ethiopia has sent soldiers across the border to protect Somalia's weak government.

AP - The leader of Somalia's Islamic courts called on all Somalis Friday to join a holy war against Ethiopia, and specifically against troops protecting the weak U.N.-backed government.

AP - Ethiopia's decision to send troops into Somalia could give the weak Somali government its only fighting chance of bringing peace to the anarchic Horn of Africa country. But it could also be just the provocation Islamic militants need to build support for a guerrilla war.

Reuters - Sudan should be pressured into accepting foreign peacekeepers from Muslim countries to help stem bloodshed in its troubled Darfur region, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Sunday.

Reuters - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz toured schools and clinics on Tuesday in the lush northern Amhara region of Ethiopia where foreign donors plan to plow aid directly into local communities.

AP - A leading Islamic cleric called on Somalis to prepare to fight Ethiopian troops believed to have entered into Somalia, where Islamic militias now control a significant portion of the country.

AP - About 100 Ethiopian troops crossed the border into Somalia on Saturday, witnesses said, the latest sign that Ethiopia might try to bolster this country's weak interim government as an Islamic militia gains increasing power.

AFP - Ethiopia has claimed to have killed more than 110 rebels allegedly sent by arch-foe Horn of Africa neighbor Eritrea to destabilize the country since the beginning of the month.

Reuters - Somalia's interim president arrived in Ethiopia on Tuesday to press for African Union (AU) peacekeepers to be sent to his country, despite resistance from Mogadishu's new Islamist rulers.

AFP - General John Abizaid, the head of the US Central Command, held talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on local and international efforts to combat terrorism, state media said.