Akhbaar

In the early hours of Sunday morning the forces of Al-Shabab with their battle field Toyota pickups, have peacefully seized the western section of Baladweyn town the headquarters Hiran region in central Somalia where they have abandoned some weeks ago after a company of Ethiopian troops have invaded in the town, and carried out security operations in it.

“In the early hours of Sunday morning when I woke up, I saw the militants of Al-Shabab in every corner of Holwadag section, majestically strolling in that section without any fear from anybody, but some minutes later I heard something like combat and I was told that it was a brief combat between the Al-Shababs forces and the Somali government soldiers in Baladweyn town” said Musa Gedi a resident at Holwadag a section of Baladweyn town speaking to Somaliweyn radio.

In fact the actual casualty between the two warring sides is not manifest.

Somaliweyn radio attempted to reach the officials of the two sides, but they have turned down to give out details at this time.

There are frequent endless clashes without tangible results between the Somali government forces and that of the Islamists in Somalia, particularly in the capital Mogadishu, and the majority of the victims of these clashes are the noncombatants.

Somalia has been in lawless situation in almost a period of two decades despite the deployment of multi peacekeeping forces in the year 1992, which have all returned without accomplishing their mission, and currently there is African Union troops on the ground.

Mohammed Omar Hussein