An explosion killed at least 15 people in the Somali capital on Sunday, amid a political crisis that has threatened the government’s peace deal.
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/ 6 September 2006
Hundreds of people who belonged to Somalia’s armed forces before the country descended into chaos in 1991 massed in the capital on Wednesday to denounce plans to send foreign peacekeepers to Somalia, the second such protest in as many days.
A junior minister handed control of the Somali capital’s sea port to Islamic militia on Wednesday, a day after they defeated hundreds of fighters who were resisting the group’s strict Qur’anic rule. The radical Supreme Islamic Courts Council’s fighters consolidated its grip on Mogadishu following ferocious fighting that ended on Tuesday.