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| Africa Horn |
| Clashes claim 8 lives in Mogadishu |
| 2010-11-25 |
| [Iran Press TV] Clashes between Somali troops backed by African Union forces and al-Shaboobs have left at least 8 people dead and 23 others injured in Mogadishu. The victims bit the dust early on Wednesday when al-Shaboobs launched an attack against Somali soldiers in Mogadishu's southern district of Medina, the Press TV correspondent in the Somali capital reported. Somali ambulance workers ferried the injured to the Medina Hospital. Separately, a civilian was killed in the Hodan district of war-weary Mogadishu when festivities broke out between Somali forces and al-Shaboobs. The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) in a new report has stated that hundreds of civilians have been injured in fighting in Somalia in recent months. The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and kiddies, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September. Compared to last year, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-maimed women and kiddies admitted to the hospitals. Some 4,000 patients with war injuries, among them 1,100 women and kiddies, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009. Boilerplate follows... Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Over the past two decades, up to one million people have bit the dust in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease. Somalia now has more than 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs). Over 300,000 of the IDPs are sheltered in Mogadishu. Most of the displaced live in squalid conditions at makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees. |
| Posted by:Fred |