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2018-12-15 India-Pakistan
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Clashes between police and protesters in Baidoa city leave 11 dead
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[RADIOSHABELLE] At least 11 people were killed in Somalia’s city of Baidoa in festivities between security forces and supporters of a former al-Shabaab
...  Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
leader who is seeking election as a regional president, a military officer and an elder said on Friday.
Authorities incarcerated
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
Mukhtar Robow on Thursday, accusing him of bringing Islamist hard boyz and weapons back to Baidoa, the capital of South West region where he is running for president.
Robow supporters angered by his arrest clashed with police backed by Æthiopian peacekeeping forces in Baidoa, said Hussein Aden, a military officer in the city.
Baidoa elder Saleh Isak accused the authorities of seeking to install its own candidate as president of South West, the first of Somalia’s seven semi-autonomous regions to hold presidential elections in the coming months.
"Yesterday, 10 people died and today they killed a politician," Isak told Rooters by telephone.
The elections are a critical juncture in a growing power struggle between the U.S.-backed central government and regions where al-Shabaab hard boyz retain a presence following a long civil war.
Aden gave a lower corpse count of at least six killed, among them politician Abdishakur Bule.
"He died in cross fire between armed protesters and police this morning. Tension is high and we do not know what to do," Aden told Rooters.
Robow was a prominent al-Shabaab leader and group front man before he publicly renounced violence and recognized federal authority in August 2017.
His front man said he was beaten by Æthiopian troops, part of an African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
peacekeeping force in Somalia, in the course of his arrest.
Officials in the Æthiopian capital Addis Ababa were not immediately reachable for comment. 
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