More bodies found in Mogadishu

At least 16 more bodies have been found in Mogadishu, bringing the death toll from fierce fighting in the last three days in the Somali capital to 59.

Residents rummaging through the destruction found nine bodies near a mosque and another six in the Black Sea district south of Mogadishu, where Ethiopian forces clashed with fighters this week.

Meydad hor leh oo laga helay Xaafado ka tirsan Magaalada Muqdisho

Sabti, November 10, 2007(HOL): Iyadoo dagaallo ka dhacay Magaalada Muqdisho labadii maalmood ee aynu ka soo gudubnay ay dad badan oo boqol ruux ku dhow ay ku dhinteen ayaa hadana waxaa la helayaa meydadka dad ku dhintay meelo luuqyo ah oo la geli waayay.

Dozens die in Mogadishu reprisals

Angry residents have been demanding that Ethiopia leaves

More than 70 people have died and more than 200 have been wounded in battles in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

A BBC correspondent says Ethiopian forces are engaged in reprisal attacks after soldiers’ bodies were dragged through the streets on Thursday.

More than 40 Killed in Heavy Fighting in Mogadishu

A hospital worker in Mogadishu, who did not want to be identified, tells VOA that the latest round of fighting is the worst he has seen in months.

He says it began late Thursday after Ethiopian troops launched a house-to-house search and fired tank shells on suspected insurgent hideouts in southern districts of the city.

America led to Disaster in the Horn of Africa – the Trap of Anti-Eritreanism

In an earlier article, entitled ‘How America is led to Disaster in Eastern Africa’, we stressed the point that Islamic Terrorism is a matter of urban centers of conflict and not of provincial periphery of peaceful traditions, we elaborated on the exploitation of US sensitivities, we advised against a Christian alliance as means of opposition to the Islamic Terrorism (due to ensuing misinterpretations), and we underscored the nefarious impact of ethically and politically impermissible alliances with totalitarian regimes like that of Abyssinia, fallaciously re-baptized as ‘Ethiopia’.

Dozens dead in Somalia fighting

Eight civilians died on Friday when an Ethiopian mortar exploded in the Bakara market area, littering the area with body parts.

 

Twelve more bodies lay in an area occupied by fighters in the north of the city – a district where Ethiopian soldiers’ corpses were dragged through streets on Thursday.

Somalia: Mogadishu Clashes Devastating Civilians

Protect Medical Facilities and Aid Workers

(New York, November 9, 2007) – Ethiopian troops and insurgents have violated the laws of war in killing and wounding dozens of civilians in new clashes in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, Human Rights Watch said today.

Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped in the city, many of them wounded and unable to access medical care and other services due to continuing fighting.