Some of the heaviest fighting in southern Somalia for months continues between Islamist insurgents and pro-government militias. Rights activists say that at least 50 people have been killed since Wednesday in clashes in the southern city of Kismayu and in the capital Mogadishu.
Residents in Kismayu said that insurgents of the Islamist al-Shabaab group have won control of the port, which lies some 500 kilometres south of Mogadishu. Islamic militants have been conducting an Iraq-style insurgency since the beginning of 2007 when an Islamist-controlled government was overthrown by Ethiopian forces.
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