Ugandan peacekeeper killed in Somali capital

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Ugandan peacekeeper killed in Somali capital

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MOGADISHU (AFP) - A Ugandan soldier was killed by artillery fire in the war-torn
Somali capital Mogadishu, marking the first death among African Union peacekeepers
deployed here, an army spokesman said on Sunday.

"One of the troops was killed and five others wounded near the presidential palace
on Saturday," Captain Paddy Ankunda, the spokesman for AU peacekeepers told AFP.

"It was in the morning when a mortar shell landed near the area where they were
deployed and caused those casualties" he added.


Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070401/wl_africa_afp/somaliaunrestugandaafricanunion

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Source: Reuters

Shelling shakes Somali capital for fourth day
Sun Apr 1, 2007 5:28AM EDT

By Sahal Abdulle

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Mortar rounds crashed into central Mogadishu on Sunday
in a fourth day of battles between Islamist insurgents and allied Ethiopian and
Somali government troops that have killed scores of civilians.

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Ethiopia says its military has killed more than 200 "armed remnants" of an Islamic
sharia courts group that was ousted from Mogadishu in a war over the New Year.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL3012595420070401