me Posted March 31, 2007 Somalia: Fighting intensifies in the capital as civilian death toll rises By: Shabelle news Dept. Mogadishu 31, March.07 ( Sh.M.Network) As the fighting in the Somalia capital Mogadishu Saturday has entered in its third day, the civilian casualty figure has risen with the rival sides of Ethiopian forces and Somali local insurgents are still exchanging heavy artillery shells. The fighting is intensifying minute by minute from around the areas of former soccer stadium Mogadishu, Ali Kamin junction to Al-Hayat hospital in south of the capital where the civilian buildings were destroyed by heavy shells. At least 16 people mostly civilians including women and children have been killed and dozens more were wounded in today’s violence. Some of them were killed by stray bullets, medical officials at Medina hospital told Shabelle radio. This brings the total number killed in the three-day clashes to 150 people and 350 others were injured, medical sources added. There are unknown casualty civilian figure that trapped in the villages of the capital. Meanwhile, around ten artillery fires have been fired into the presidential palace where the Ethiopian forces were firing the shells. It is not yet clear the casualty on the Ethiopian soldiers. Shabelle Media Network Somalia E-mail us: info@shabelle.net Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
me Posted March 31, 2007 Dagaalo qadhaadh oo xalay waabarigii ilaa haatan ka soconaya magaalada Muqdisho. Warkii 31-Mar-2007 iyo Qormadii: Afnugaalnews Waxaa soo xoogaystay dagaaladii maalmihii lasoo dhaafay kasoconayay magaalada Muqdisho iyada oo 2:30kii habeenimo ay dirirta dagaaladu ay dib ucusboonaadeen, dagaaladan oo laysku adeegsanayo madhaafiicda iyo qoryaha kala duwan ayaa waxa uu hada wali kasoconayaa goobihii ay dagaaladu kasoconayeen maalmihii lasoo dhaafay. Dagaaladan hada kasoconaya magaalada Muqdisho ayaa marba marka kadanbaysa sii xoogaysanaya iyadoo ay labada dhinac marba marka kadanbaysa ay helayaan gurmad hor leh ayna dhalinayso in dagaalku uu sii kululaado ayaa saaka waxa uu dagaalka xoogiisu kasocdaa agagaarka garoonka Ciyaaraha iyo wadada Gen: Daa’uud. Ciidamada dalka Itoobiya ayaa waxa ay waraku nagu soo gaadhayaan inay saaka la wareegeen qaybo kamid ah dhulkii uu dagaalka qadhaadh uu kasocday maalmihii lasoo dhaafay oo ay kala kulmeen iska cabin xoog badan ayaa waxaa kamid ah goobaha ay saaka la wareegeen Xararyaale iyo Xamar Bille. Dagaalka saaka ayaa ilaa hada qasaaraha dhabta ah ee soo kala gaadahay labada dhinac aan si rasmi ah aan loo oigayn iyada oo ay dad hor leh saaka ka qaxayaan xaafadaha uu dagaaladu kasocdo ee magaalada Muqdisho iyaga oo lug uga baxaya xaafadaha uu dagaaladu kasocdaan si ay u helaan meelo nabdoon waxaana shaqaynayn dhamaan baabuurtii ukala gooshi jirtay xaafadaha magaalada. Afnugaalnews info@afnugaal.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
me Posted March 31, 2007 Artillery rocks Mogadishu on third day of fighting By Sahal Abdulle Saturday, March 31, 2007 MOGADISHU, March 31 (Reuters) - Shelling rocked Mogadishu for a third day on Saturday, overwhelming hospitals with casualties as Ethiopian and Somali troops backed by helicopter gunships attacked Islamist rebels and clan militia. Scores of civilians have been killed in what the International Committee of the Red Cross says is the capital's worst fighting for more than 15 years. Ethiopia said its military had killed more than 200 "armed remnants" of a hardline Islamist movement ousted from Mogadishu in a war over the New Year. Terrified residents said volleys of artillery rounds began crashing down hours before dawn. "The whole city is being shelled indiscriminately," Salado Yebarow, who lives between the main stadium and the presidential palace, told Reuters by telephone. "Whoever is doing this is not human. They have clearly never had a grandmother or children to think about." Yebarow's elderly, disabled neighbour, Awrala Adan, said she was cowering behind furniture in a corner of her small house. "I've lost faith in this world to help us now," Adan said. Hospitals struggled to cope with injured civilians, even though most victims could not reach any kind of help because of ongoing battles. Doctors were also trapped by the fighting. At the city's main Madina Hospital, many patients lay on thin mattresses in the yard. Others wailed inside packed wards. NO RELIEF "I have never seen anything like this," hospital director Sheikhdon Salad Elmi told Reuters. "We are operating with only half our surgeons here, and the doctors who are here have now been working without relief for the last three days." Thousands of people have fled the city in recent days, and a Reuters reporter said thousands more took to the streets on foot at first light on Saturday. "The largest exodus ever witnessed in the last decade and a half is ongoing in Mogadishu," independent broadcaster Shabelle said on its Web site. "All businesses are closed and all streets are abandoned." As the battles intensified on Friday, insurgents shot down an Ethiopian helicopter gunship with a missile. Ugandan peacekeepers pulled two dead crewmembers from the wreckage. Somalia's envoy to Ethiopia told reporters the attacks were only targeting insurgent strongholds where local elders had failed to convince rebels to disarm. Many analysts say Addis Ababa seems bent on obliterating the insurgents and their clan militia allies, who have been emboldened by recent strikes including the downing of a plane serving an African peacekeeping mission. But the experts say it could have the opposite effect of turning Mogadishu's people further against their Christian-led neighbour or drawing in foreign Muslim jihadists. Despite the fighting, Somalia's interim government remains confident a reconciliation meeting of elders, politicians and former warlords planned for April 16 will go ahead in the city. The mandate for the administration, which is the 14th attempt to restore central rule in Somalia since 1991, runs out in 2009, after which, in theory, there should be elections. The African Union (AU) has sent 1,200 Ugandan troops to help the government, but they have been attacked. Other African nations are baulking at sending more soldiers to bring the AU force to its planned strength of 8,000. Source: Reuters, Mar 31, 2007 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar Posted April 1, 2007 "The whole city is being shelled indiscriminately," Salado Yebarow, who lives between the main stadium and the presidential palace, told Reuters by telephone. "Whoever is doing this is not human. They have clearly never had a grandmother or children to think about." Yebarow's elderly, disabled neighbour, Awrala Adan, said she was cowering behind furniture in a corner of her small house. "I've lost faith in this world to help us now," Adan said. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
