Somali govt on alert over Islamist “aggression”
Militia loyal to Somalia’s interim government are on alert amid reports of a provocative advance by Islamist forces, a minister said on Wednesday. “If whatever we are hearing is true, and that they are 35 km from Baidoa, then we consider this an act of aggression,” Ibrahim Adan Hassan, minister for air and land transport, told Reuters from the government’s provincial seat Baidoa. Full Story