Word: mogadishu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil war in the Horn of Africa continues to devour its children. Artillery shells and rockets again pounded the center of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, last week, killing and wounding hundreds. Fighting erupted in several parts of the city, including its port, and relief workers described the carnage as "appalling...
President Mahdi has been unable to establish his government outside the capital area, and northern Somalia, declaring itself a republic, seceded in May. Now rival clans throughout the country have begun choosing sides in the battle for Mogadishu and threaten a return to full-scale warfare...
...capital city of Mogadishu resembled a charnel house last week after victorious rebels drove President Mohammed Siad Barre into exile, ending 21 years of dictatorial rule. Dogs devoured hundreds of corpses in the streets < following a month-long campaign that killed more than 5,000 civilians and forced tens of thousands to flee. Starving survivors had only fetid river water to drink, and looters reduced shattered buildings to empty shells...
Prospects for the new government in Mogadishu seemed bleak. The coalition of rebels, which represents three Somali clans that have feuded for centuries, named hotel owner Ali Mahdi Mohammed, 52, interim President until elections could be held. But Mahdi's party, the United Somali Congress, grew angry at his appointment by a clique of elders and attacked the action as "hasty" and "unnatural." The tenuous troika could swiftly come unglued...
...government has lost all control in Mogadishu, and chaos has taken over. Armed mobs, some of them renegade soldiers from President Mohammed Siad Barre's army, roam the city shooting and looting. Troops shouting "Allah Akbar!" (God is great!) invaded the Roman Catholic cathedral, drove the congregation out with tear gas and truncheons, then set fire to the building. An Italian priest who witnessed the attack said many worshipers were killed...