Fighting breaks out in Somali capital as famine aid arrives

Friday, July 29, 2011

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- African Union troops fought house-to-house battles with militants Thursday to clear space for aid groups bringing in food supplies after intelligence reports showed insurgents reinforcing for a possible attack on squalid camps of famine refugees.

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