New Fighting reported in Somali Capital.
"We will not wait any agreement from Shabab ´ Sharamarke said. "We will fight street to street, house to house and we will defeat them." Mortar shells reportedly hit the center of the capital, forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes for the second time in less than two weeks.
The streets leading toward the city center were awash with people carrying bundles and mattresses on their heads, in scenes reminiscent of first Shabab offensives in past weeks when some 200 people died, hundreds wounded and thousands displaced. The African Union has promised to send up to 3,000aditional peacekeepers to Somalia but has yet to deploy any.
Diplomats at the United Nations (UN) said Thursday that the peacekeeping troops would not be deployed until the condition on the ground improves.
Almost two weeks, ago Shabab Militia fought their way almost to the Presidential place the heart of the capital, causing the heaviest casualties of the bloody civil war in the country. diplomats in Kenyan Capital Nairobi who refused to be named criticized the delay in the AMISOM deployment and called on the international community to send peacekeepers immediately. The United States is under pressure to take a lead role in helping fragile Somali Government.
Civil war over the past decade has made Somalia among the most miserable places in the world and the latest unrest since Ethiopian invasion of 2006 has forced some 300,000 Somalis to flee to outside Mogadishu and claimed thousands more lives.

