Mogadishu — Main roads entering Mogadishu's Bakara market have been reopened on Monday a day after they were blocked by Somali and Ethiopian troops conducting house-to-house search operations in several divisions of the complicated city.

Around 6: 30 a.m. local time, hundreds of people occupied the KPP road to Bakara. Most of them said they heard from local radios that the roads were open again. Hamsato Ali, a mother of nine, and vegetable seller, said she brought nothing home yesterday after the troops stopped people from going into the open-air market.

"I did not know that there was a military operation because I did not listen to the radios. My friends and I could not make our way to the market, so I went back home empty handed, but today I am happy to do my job again. I have nine kids and their father home waiting for me," she said. She pointed out that her husband has been unemployed since the collapse of the country's central government in 1991.

Nonetheless, the joint search operations still maintain in northern part of the capital. Residents in Hamar Jadid reported that the troops seized a large number of people in the area.

Ethiopian troops based in Somalia's former past factory could be seen Sunday positioning themselves outside their compound after unknown gunmen attacked them overnight.

Witnesses said they could see the Ethiopians searching houses in the area for the insurgents.