Somali battle
Heavy clan fighting erupted in the southern Somali port of Kismayu, killing five Somalis and wounding fifteen, Reuter reports from Mogadishu. In what is widely seen as a probable prelude to renewed civil war, gun battles raged for about 90 minutes in Kismayu between the Ogadeni and rival sub-clans.
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