An international delegation visiting Somalia has flown to Kenya after being ordered out of the country by two of the main warlords Hussein Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed.

They were apparently angered by the delegation's decision to fly to the airport at Merka, one-hundred kilometres from Mogadishu, rather than to the capital itself, in an attempt to avoid being manipulated by the rival factions.

The delegation consists of senior diplomats from neighbouring countries and inter-governmental bodies and spent several days in Somalia trying to find a political solution to the fighting which has left the country without a central government for the past eight years.