(SomaliNet) Around 11 bomb blasts have trembled overnight the Somalia’s volatile city Mogadishu despite curfew imposed by the national security commission to restore normalcy – there are no immediate casualties from the latest explosions. The explosions followed by gunfire happened in north and south of the capital but this morning the city was quiet as the Somali government troops along with the Ethiopian forces set up checkpoints in the main Mogadishu streets. The latest violence came as the leader of the Shura council in the defeated Islamic Courts Union Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys supported what he called ‘the insurgency in the capital’ as legal force to face against both the transitional government and its allied forces of Ethiopia and Uganda.
| He's supporting this from a safe distance, I presume. |