Cairo, (insidesomalia.org) - The former Somalia’s Islamic courts union leader and Asmara based re-liberation of Somalia group chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has met with Egyptian officials in Egyptian capital of Cairo on Monday, officials said

Sources close to Egyptian officials met with Sharif say that he will also meet with some Egyptian intelligence center high-ranking officials and will jointly exchange their opinion regarding the presence of Ethiopian troops in Somalia.

Sheikh Sharif also had closed doors meeting with Egypt government members on the subject of the situation of Somalia.

The new talks between Sheikh Ahmed and Egyptian representatives comes as Egypt rebuffed in the past long time-consuming presence of Ethiopian troops in Somalia saying it will jeopardize the subsistence of Somalia’s nationhood.

Ahmed's Islamist courts' movement ruled the capital Mogadishu for six months in 2006, before it was ousted by Ethiopia's army backing forces of the interim Somali government.

The opposition alliance is made up of Islamists, former parliamentarians and Diaspora members.

Islamists have led the insurgency throughout 2007 against the government and Ethiopian troops, during which at least 6,500 people have been killed and 600,000 have fled the capital.

As the country is teetering with high standard of anarchy as a result of political rivaling groups the two politically opposed sides of the Islamists and TFG officials have emerged to bear in there mind out-of-the-way political from each other that will continue to imperil the horn Africa nation’s under-deepening economic.

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