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Somalia in chaos after assassination
Baidoa, Somalia | July 29, 2006 12:01:13 AM IST
About 1,000 protesters with sticks, knives and stones rioted in Baidoa, Somalia, after a gunman killed a Somali cabinet minister outside a mosque. The violence worsened fears the country was headed toward a regional war, The New York Times reported Saturday. Abdallah Deerow Isaq, the minister for federal and constitutional affairs, was ambushed in central Baidoa as he walked out of Friday prayers. It was the second shooting of a lawmaker this week. Police immediately blocked roads, rushed to fortify buildings and sought to quell the riots, the Times said. Scores of shops were looted in several hours of chaos. The interim government -- based in Baidoa because it is too weak to survive in the capital, Mogadishu, 155 miles away -- is quickly losing ground to Islamic militants with alleged links to al-Qaida, who now control the capital and much of southern Somalia, the Times said. Eighteen key government officials resigned this week, saying the government has failed to bring peace. In the past few days, hundreds of troops from neighboring Ethiopia have poured across the border, disappearing into the bush, U.N. officials say. Mysterious planes have also landed in Mogadishu. (UPI)
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