Corpses lay on the streets of Mogadishu on Monday after at least 81 people were killed in battles over the weekend between Islamist-led insurgents and Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia’s interim government. Northern districts of the coastal capital suffered the worst of the most intense fighting for months.
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 December 2007
Somalia’s new prime minister called on Sunday for dialogue with Islamist-led opponents to end an insurgency that a rights group says has killed nearly 6 000 civilians so far this year. In some of his first public comments on the conflict, Somalia’s new prime minister, Nur Hassan Hussein, said he was open to talks.