{"id":428690,"date":"2011-05-23T11:43:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/23\/bitter-confrontations-restart-around-mogadishus-main-market\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T11:43:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:43:40","slug":"bitter-confrontations-restart-around-mogadishus-main-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/23\/bitter-confrontations-restart-around-mogadishus-main-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Confrontations Restart Around Mogadishu&#8217;s Main Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"18.1225218081\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shabelle.net\/the-news-in-english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shabelle Media Network<\/a> (Mogadishu)<\/p>\n<p>23 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Mogadishu \u2014 Intense confrontations between Somali troops backed by AU forces and Al shabaab fighters on Monday restarted near Bakaara, Mogadishu&#8217;s largest and busiest market in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy crackling of machine gunfire could be heard in many parts of Hodan and Howlwadag districts.<\/p>\n<p>Al shabaab and Somali troops are struggling and fighting the control of Bakaara market where the government believes to be a stronghold for militants.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the combats are continuing in the intersections of Adan Adde, Howlwadag and Bakaara.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting is part of Mogadishu battles which were going on in the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, at least 15 people were killed and 50 others hurt in Mogadishu fighting and bombardments.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105230992.html\" title=\"Bitter Confrontations Restart Around Mogadishu's Main Market\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bitter Confrontations Restart Around Mogadishu&#8217;s Main Market<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) 23 May 2011 Mogadishu \u2014 Intense confrontations between Somali troops backed by AU forces and Al shabaab fighters on Monday restarted near Bakaara, Mogadishu&#8217;s largest and busiest market in the capital. Heavy crackling of machine gunfire could be heard in many parts of Hodan and Howlwadag districts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bitter Confrontations Restart Around Mogadishu&#039;s Main Market - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/23\/bitter-confrontations-restart-around-mogadishus-main-market\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bitter Confrontations Restart Around Mogadishu&#039;s Main Market - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) 23 May 2011 Mogadishu \u2014 Intense confrontations between Somali troops backed by AU forces and Al shabaab fighters on Monday restarted near Bakaara, Mogadishu&#039;s largest and busiest market in the capital. 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