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/ 19 October 2007
Somali government forces on Friday battled Islamist insurgents in southern Mogadishu, killing two civilians, witnesses said. Rival forces pounded each other with heavy artillery, forcing many residents to remain indoors while others fled to safety, they said.
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/ 23 September 2007
The United Nations’s new envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, held his first talks in Mogadishu on Saturday with the embattled transitional government’s top leaders, the UN said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s special representative discussed the results of a recent national reconciliation congress.