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Somali pro-government forces on Tuesday closed in on bastions of the insurgent al-Shabaab group, mounting their largest coordinated effort in years.
Two United Nations aid workers, a Briton and a Kenyan, were abducted by armed men Tuesday in southern Somalia, the latest in a string of attacks targeting humanitarian operations. "We don't have much information for the moment, but what I can say is that two foreign aid workers ... were intercepted," local district commissioner Ibrahim Noleye said.
Somalia's president on Monday declared a state of emergency in a bid to contain a deadly six-week-old insurgent offensive.
A powerful Islamist movement has seized control of a strategic trading post in southern Somalia, expanding its territorial control and fuelling fears of an all-out war with government troops, residents and militia commanders said on Thursday. The Islamists said the township, which straddles three regions, had fallen without bloodshed, according witnesses.
Somali pro-government forces on Tuesday closed in on bastions of the insurgent al-Shabaab group, mounting their largest coordinated effort in years.
Two United Nations aid workers, a Briton and a Kenyan, were abducted by armed men Tuesday in southern Somalia, the latest in a string of attacks targeting humanitarian operations. "We don't have much information for the moment, but what I can say is that two foreign aid workers ... were intercepted," local district commissioner Ibrahim Noleye said.
Somalia's president on Monday declared a state of emergency in a bid to contain a deadly six-week-old insurgent offensive.
A powerful Islamist movement has seized control of a strategic trading post in southern Somalia, expanding its territorial control and fuelling fears of an all-out war with government troops, residents and militia commanders said on Thursday. The Islamists said the township, which straddles three regions, had fallen without bloodshed, according witnesses.
