Militias allied to the Somali government recaptured a southern port from Islamists on Tuesday, taking the death toll from an upsurge of fighting in recent days to nearly 100, witnesses said. The militias recaptured Guda town, which had been taken by the Islamists’ militant al-Shabaab wing on Monday.
Clashes between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops killed 81 people in Mogadishu in one day, a prominent local human rights group said on Sunday. ”Eighty-one people were killed and 119 more were wounded in the violence in Mogadishu since Saturday,” Sudan Ali Ahmed, chairperson of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Organisation, said.
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/ 2 February 2008
Remote-controlled explosives were strapped to two women with Down’s syndrome and detonated in coordinated attacks on two Friday-morning markets in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 73 people and wounding nearly 150. The first targeted shoppers at a pet market in the al-Ghazl area, killing 46 people and injuring 100.