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Residents of the town housing Somalia’s interim government stocked up with provisions on Friday as troops tested weaponry ahead of a feared attack by rival Islamists in the Horn of Africa nation. “I’m afraid when war breaks out, roads will be closed and food is going to be unaffordable,” labourer and father-of-three Said Ali Ahmed said at a cafe in the trading town that lies in the middle of an agricultural area of south-central Somalia. Full Story