Somalia: one week in hell – inside the city the world forgot
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/29/somalia-mogadishu-civil-war-special-report
Few respites in this most ravaged of cities last long, and within days of our conversation the relative calm had given way to a more familiar story: running battles between the forces of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the notional president, and the more radical Islamist al-Shabaab militia. More than 200 people have been killed in these skirmishes and as many as 60,000 people have fled.
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