More conflict in post-war Somalia, 4 dead
Somali gunmen battled government and Ethiopian troops on Saturday in a crowded Mogadishu market, killing four people in the latest flare-up after a war that ousted Islamists, witnesses and officials said. The shootout — following mortar strikes on the presidential palace after dark on Friday — was the latest flare-up in a guerrilla-style campaign against the allied forces who ended the Islamists’ six-month rule of the south at the New Year. Full Story