AN armoured column of Ethiopian troops made a two-day incursion into Somalia, looting field radios and other equipment and kidnapping a businessman, a Somali warlord charged on Tuesday. The warlord, Somali National Front leader General Omer Haji Mohamed “Masale”, said the troops rolled over the border in the Balanbale area of Somalia’s central Galgudud region on Sunday and withdrew on Monday. His claims could not be confirmed by independent sources, but Ethiopian troops crossed the border several times last year in pursuit of rebels. Factions in Somalia — without a central government for the past eight years — are divided into pro and anti-Ethiopian groups.