MOGADISHU: A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday. Somalia’s federal government is not only struggling to contain violence unleashed by the Al Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab group, but is also facing clan-based clashes over control of land and water in the Horn of Africa nation. Unfortunately 55 people died, this includes both clans,” he told Reuters. “These are two brotherly clans that jointly used to defeat Al-Shabab.”The fighting subsided following the arrival of federal government soldiers, residents said and Falagle said. A permanent ceasefire is needed,” Sadia Hussein, a mother of four, told Reuters from Abudwaq.

Source: Ethiopian News June 10, 2024 12:18 UTC