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Gunmen attacked a convoy of Somali and Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu, firing rocket-propelled grenades that destroyed one military vehicle and setting off a half-hour gunbattle, residents said.
Government troops and allied Ethiopian soldiers were searching house-to-house for the assailants after the attack on Sunday night in the capital’s Hurwa district.
The government, with help from Ethiopia’s military, last month, drove out an Islamic militia that had controlled much of southern Somalia since the summer. But sporadic fighting continues.
“Residents in Hurwa district have stopped sending their children to school as businesses and schools were closed,” said a resident of the neighbourhood.
The US, the UN and the AU all want to deploy peacekeepers to stop Somalia from returning to clan-based violence and anarchy.
