Prospects for peace in Somalia are fading, a United Nations envoy has said, as UN-brokered talks came to an end in Djibouti.
Ahmedou Ould Abdallah said busy international diplomats could not be held hostage by personality disputes.
He said the continuing fighting was terrible for the people of Somalia.
On Sunday at least 12 people were killed in a third consecutive day of heavy fighting near the main Bakara market in the capital, Mogadishu.
Mr Abdallah said neither side was willing to make any concessions.
Meanwhile, the International Federation of Journalists has condemned the killing of a Somali journalist US confirms attack in Somalia ...
Troops aim to seize Comoros island ... on Saturday, and urged the international community to do more to restore stability in the war-torn nation.
Nasteh Dahir, who worked for both the BBC and Associated Press news agency, was shot in the chest and stomach outside his home in Kismayo, about 500 kilometres south of Mogadishu.
The National Union of Somali Journalists said it was a "targeted assassination" and that the 26-year-old had received death threats.
At least nine other journalists have been killed in Somalia since February 2007, according to human-rights group Amnesty International.
Correspondents say Islamist insurgents are suspected in the attack on Mr Dahir.
A small contingent of African Union troops is in Mogadishu but has done little to quell the violence between insurgents and the Ethiopia-backed Somali government forces.
Somalia has not had a functioning national government since 1991.
(BBC)
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