A lull during fierce fighting gave Hassan Mohamud Mohamed time to hire a boy to wash the blood from his vehicle.
Islamist fighters in Somalia said on Friday that they seized food from the World Food Programme from markets in Mogadishu.
A Somali militant group with links to al-Qaeda on Monday announced it had banned three Christian aid agencies from its territory.
Four people wounded, including two African Union troops, in a suicide attack outside an AU base earlier Tuesday.
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Somali lawmakers have voted to authorise the government to declare martial law, giving support to the country’s internationally recognised leaders in their struggle to assert their authority over an Islamic movement that until recently controlled much of southern Somalia.
Somalia’s prime minister survived a no-confidence vote on Sunday, just days after a group of lawmakers resigned in disgust and said his weak administration has failed to bring peace to this chaotic African country. "I respect those who voted against me and I respect those who voted for me," Gedi said after the vote.