Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
18 January 2008
Mogadishu — Following a heavy bombardment skirmishing occurred in Mogadishu on Thursday the casualty of that hostility has became so greater than before.
At least 16 people are confirmed to have died in the fighting two of them were Ethiopian soldiers at the same time as more than one hundred others have injured following skirmishing stuck between Ethiopian and the TFG on one side and the insurgents.
Some of the wounded people were at there homes when mortars landed on there homes
Ethiopian troop's tank passing through in mogadishu the insurgents are firing bullets against Ethiopian soldiers civilians fleeing battle in mogadishu youths carrying dead civilian body in the capital the elder woman cries for wound on her hand Seven people have wounded in Hararyale village after a field gun hit in Wardhigley in particular a location close to the presidential palace.
Else where total one family have all died collectively within there home after mortar hit on there home during the warring time. "I fled from my kiosk in Bakara open-air market when Ethiopian soldiers marched the market" shop vendor told shabelle English section The fighting has killed hundreds of mainly civilians over the past six months and forced hundreds of thousands to flee the city, sparking what the UN has described as Africa's worst humanitarian crisis. The African Union has deployed a contingent of 1,600 Ugandan peacekeepers but they have failed to stabilise the restive capital.
The pan-African body plans to eventually deploy 8,000 peacekeepers in the Horn of Africa country, which has been plagued by civil unrest since the 1991 ouster of Dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and defied numerous peace initiatives.
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