The three Swedish nationals released last week from a prison in Ethiopia continue to claim that they were tortured by their captors. But Swedish officials who visited the men say they received no indications of mistreatment.
Three Swedish nationals detained in Ethiopia for several months and released last week were "tortured" and mistreated during their captivity, their lawyer said on Tuesday.
A pregnant Swedish teenager has told of how she was arrested by American soldiers on the border between Somalia and Kenya. Now back in Sweden, she has expressed her concern for her husband, whom she has not seen since she was released from prison. She has also criticized Sweden's silence over her imprisonment.
A number of Swedish citizens are reported to have been killed in fighting in Somalia. The Swedes in question had joined Islamist militias in their battle with the country's interim government, a spokesman for the government, Abdirahman Dinari, told Sveriges Radio.
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has warned that Africa is on the verge of a major regional conflict. Speaking in an interview with news agency TT, Bildt expressed concern at rising tensions on the continent and in particular in the Horn of Africa.
The foreign ministry in Stockholm on Friday identified a Swedish journalist shot dead during a mass demonstration in Mogadishu as Martin Adler, a spokeswoman told AFP.
A Swedish court on Thursday ordered the release of a Somalian held in Sweden on suspicion of genocide, rejecting a prosecutor's request to have him detained in custody, Swedish media reported.
Thousands of angry Somalis took to the streets of bullet-scarred Mogadishu on Wednesday to protest the arrest this week in Sweden of the capital's police chief on suspicion of genocide.
