More Than 20 Killed in Central Somalia Fighting

More than 20 people were killed Wednesday in fighting between government soldiers and Islamist insurgents in central Somalia, witnesses and officials said. Al-Shabab fighters attacked a Somali National Army base in El-Hareri, a village in the Galguduud region, before dawn. The commander of the base, Colonel Ahmed Mohamed, told VOA's Somali service that 18 militants, five government soldiers and a civilian were killed during the fighting. “They attacked our base with hundreds of...

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