Mogadishu,(insidesomalia.org)- Six money transfer companies have restarted their normal work today after the government ordered them to close down their branches in Hamarweyne district in Mogadishu.

These money Transfer Companies activities have been brought to halt by the Ethiopian troops on Wednesday as well it has been issued an order on closing down of that company's branches in Hamarweyne district in Mogadishu until they would pay suborn money.

Each company has been ordered to pay between $15,000 and $20,000 as tax since the government cannot take the tax money from the main headquarters of these companies those situate in the main Bakara market that controlled by the Islamists fight against the TFG and the presence of the Ethiopian troops in Somalia.

Ethiopian troops helped Somalia's transitional government to drive out Somalia's Islamic courts union those controlled large parts of the country for six months.

Somalia's interim government and its Ethiopian military backers are battling an insurgency in Mogadishu led by remnants of a hardline Islamist group they kicked out of the city more than a year ago in a lightning offensive.

The violence sent 600,000 people fleeing the Somali capital last year, and aid groups say the exodus is continuing.

A small contingent of African Union peacekeepers from Burundi and Uganda have failed to stop the bloodshed.