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Six Killed In South Somalia
Fighting erupts in village of Habarre between militia groups loyal to rival leaders of split RRA faction.
MOGADISHU, August 8, 2003, (Middle East Online) – At least six people were killed and nine were wounded on Friday in clashes between two rival armed groups in Somalia's southern Bay region, militia sources and local elders said.
The fighting in the village of Habarre, 175 kilometres (105 miles) south of Mogadishu, was between two militia groups loyal to rival leaders of the split Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA) faction, according to Aden Nur "Saransor" a member of one of the groups.
The Bay and Bakol regions, previously controlled by a united Rahanwein Resistance Army, have seen intermittent bouts of violence triggered in 2000 by a power struggle between warlord Hassan Mohamed Nur "Shatigudud" and his two former allies Sheikh Aden Mohamed "Modobe" and Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade.
Somalia last had a functioning government in 1991 when the regime of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown. The country has since then been ripped apart by interclan warfare.
Peace talks aimed at ending more than a decade of anarchic bloodletting in the Horn of African country are under way in Nairobi, Kenya.
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