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Africa Horn |
9,200 displaced in Somalia violence |
2012-05-28 |
(Sh.M.Network)-- At least 9,200 people have been displaced in a fierce battle raging between the coalition forces and the Death Eaters near the Somali capital, the UN refugee agency said here Saturday. The fighting erupted in Afgooye, a stronghold of the Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... beturbanned goon group, some 30 km from Mogadishu. People have fled to Mogadishu, Lower Shabelle and Lower Juba regions to avoid the fighting, the UNHCR said. Africa Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia said that its forces and the Somali Army have secured all major roads leading in and out of Afgooye town, |
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