| At least 60 people were reported killed and another 90 wounded in renewed fighting this week in the northwest part of Somalia’s Galgadud Region. Local sources in the regional capital, Dhusa-Mareb, told the U.N.’s Integrated Regional Information Networks the latest fighting was between the Darod subclan of the Marehan and the Dir subclan of Fiqi Muhumud, and was concentrated in and around the village of Herale, northwest of Dhusa-Mareb. Last month Herale, which is populated by the Fiqi Mahmud, was also the scene of serious fighting between the two sides which left over 50 people dead. According to sources from a neutral clan in the area, what started out as "revenge killings" had now flared up into a "fully-fledged land war". Sources told the IRIN the Marehan want the Fiqi Muhumud out of the area, and until one group gives up, the fighting will probably continue. |