{"id":2534,"date":"2012-12-02T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T10:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daafeet.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2012-12-02T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T10:11:53","slug":"at-least-26-killed-in-somali-clan-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/2012\/12\/02\/at-least-26-killed-in-somali-clan-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 26 killed in Somali clan battles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MOGADISHU \u2014 Fierce fighting between heavily armed rival clans in war-torn Somalia has killed at least 26 people in a dispute over grazing land and water, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n

“There are many casualties, the initial reports are of 26 people killed,” said Mohamed Abdi Shire, a senior commander of the Ahlu Sunna militia in central Somalia, which controls the region.<\/p>\n

Clashes broke out Saturday in the central Galgadud region, around the villages of Marer and Balalder, he added.<\/p>\n

Both gunmen and civilians were reported to among those killed and wounded when fighters from the rival Saleban and Duduble clans clashed.<\/p>\n

“We have received 18 injured people so far, three of them in a serious condition,” said Ali Dahir, a doctor at the main hospital in nearby Adadao.<\/p>\n

Clashes are common between rival clans, especially over grazing and water for livestock.
\n“On behalf of the Somali government, I call upon the two clans to stop the bloodshed,” Somalia’s interior minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled told reporters in the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n

Anarchic Somalia has been in chaos since the fall of President Siad Barre in 1991, and much of the country is controlled by a complex patchwork of rival militia forces.<\/p>\n

The fighting was not connected to Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shehab insurgents, whom a 17,000-strong Africa Union force, Ethiopian troops and government forces are also battling.<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU \u2014 Fierce fighting between heavily armed rival clans in war-torn Somalia has killed at least 26 people in a dispute over grazing land and water, officials said Sunday. “There are many casualties, the initial reports are of 26 people killed,” said Mohamed Abdi Shire, a senior commander of the Ahlu Sunna militia in central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89N1L-ES","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}