Somalia: Daybreak clashes between Islamists in Kismayo

Mogadishu Thursday 1 October 2009 Shaaficiyah Media

Ferocious fighting between close allies Islamist has broken out between in the southern strategic coastal town of Kismayo the capital of lower Jubbah region, which is some 500km south of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

There has been intense tension between Al-Shabab martyrs and Hizbul-Islam in Kismyo, and have been exchanging strong words via the media.

The fundamental issue of the combat between the two Islamists groups

came after Al-Shabab group has announced that it will establish an administration which comes under them, to govern the entire of the two Jubbah regions in southern somalia, and this statment has was strongly boycotted by their close ally Hizbul-Islam.

An officer in Hizbul-Islam has yesterday vowed that if combat between them and Al-Shabab starts in Kismayo, it will affect the entire of the places where the two factions control together.

Thefighting is still in process and somaliweyn will update you the latest about the comabat between the the two Islamists factions.

Shaaficiyah Media