Thousands Displaced as Fighting Flares in Somalia

Hundreds of families are on the move in the Somali capital after three days of fighting between government troops supported by AU peacekeeping troops and Islamist insurgents, sources told IRIN.

Mothers sit with their malnourished and dehydrated children in a ward at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

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