The death toll from the worst fighting in southern Somalia for months rose to 70 on Friday, with scores wounded, rights activists and residents said.
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/ 28 January 2008
Two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were killed by a roadside bomb on Monday near the southern Somali port of Kismayu, witnesses said. Abdi Adan Duale, a nurse with MSF in Kismayu, confirmed the deaths.
Several hundred Somali soldiers briefly seized the southern port of Kismayu in a protest over unpaid salaries in the latest sign of the turmoil plaguing the Horn of Africa nation, residents said on Thursday. Business was brought to a standstill as about 800 troops took up positions across Somalia’s third city on Tuesday, they said.
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/ 6 February 2007
Ethiopian soldiers paraded on Tuesday a wounded senior cleric captured in south Somalia during the pursuit of remnants of an Islamist movement ousted from Mogadishu. Bearded cleric Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Madobe told reporters he suffered more than a dozen bullet wounds after United States planes fired on his forest hideout.
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/ 16 October 2006
Troops loyal to powerful Somali Islamists clashed with rival militia fighters in a southern town, killing four and stoking fears of mounting violence in the Horn of Africa nation, residents said on Monday. Two gunmen were killed on each side, they said, and two others wounded during the overnight battle in Jilib, an agricultural town about 110km north of Kismayo port.
Somali Islamists arrested 35 people and shot in the air to disperse a protest in Kismayo against the new administration at the key port it seized last month, witnesses said on Saturday. Scores of people took to the streets late on Friday, burning tyres and blocking roads, after the Islamists appointed a new governor, mayor and heads of the airport, port and the city’s overall security.
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/ 27 September 2006
Somali Islamists disarmed hundreds of militiamen in the port of Kismayo on Wednesday, seizing battlewagons and guns in a move to further cement their control over the city they took this week. Officials from the Juba Valley Alliance, which controlled the region around Somalia’s third largest city before Islamists took over on Monday, gathered in an open field to present their weapons.