New Fighting reported in Somali Capital.

Mahdi Haile
Fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu grew fiercer on Friday as PM Sharmarker vowed to defeat shabab terrorist according to reports reaching us from Somalia. residents of Mogadishu Said fighters belonging to government led by shikh sharif had attacked a Wardhigley police station, Howlwadag, and Hodan districts . They also attacked a shabab militia controlling an important road called the Wadnaha across the Bakara market. government troops were battling to halt the advance by the Shabab Militia that had seized most of southern Somalia and many parts in Mogadishu.

"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.
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Mahdi Haile

Mr. Mahdi A Haile has a BA in Marketing Management and earned his Master's Degree in Political Science. he is an independent expert on Horn of Africa, a Somali blogger, a contributor of American Chronicles and Managing editor of Warsan Times news, Activist and human rights campaigner. He worked with United Nations intervention UNISOM in Somalia 1990 , as well as Medicine san Fronts of Spain. He also worked with other nonprofit non-governmental organizations. Currently he is Director of Center For Somali Solutions headquartered in USA. as a Horn African Political Analyst specializing in matters of security, human rights, peace, development issues in the Horn Africa. From 2004 to present, Mr. Mahdi Haile serves as,Managing Editor of Warsan Times News. His publications include numerous articles on Horn Of Africa, as well as East African communities in America, American Foreign Policy in Africa. He has participated, in numerous conferences around the USA and the globe including resetelment, advocacy of Somali community in the USA and Somali peace process, Human rights conferences. His articles and editorials have been published in Qaranimo.com Hiiraan.com Warsan Times news paper Star Tribune, Pioneer press and other news papers and online magazines. As a political analyst, he has been interviewed by national and international media about Somalia.if you want to interview Mahdi Haile about Horn African issues especially Somalia and Somalis in Diaspora you can contact him at Somalisolutions@gmail.com or call him at 612-287-5158.