Gunmen in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, attacked Ethiopian troops supporting the Somali government on Sunday, witnesses said, sparking a firefight in the second straight day of violence in a city struggling to emerge from more than a decade of chaos.
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/ 13 December 2006
At a time when questions about the United States’s use of military power abound, the US is using its muscle to make friends in a region that many fear could become a haven for radicalism. This week, the military started air-dropping about 100 000kg of supplies in Dadaab, Kenya, following the worst flood season in East Africa in 50 years.