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  • Title: [SW News] ( AFP) RRA fight militias in Shabelle,  Djibouti's proposals for creation of transitional assembly for Somalia.
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  • Date :[] 07 Feb 2000

Six killed in factional fighting in southern Somalia
MOGADISHU, Feb 7 (AFP) - At least six people were
killed and 11 wounded when an Islamic militia clashed
with fighters of another armed faction in southern
Somalia on Monday, witnesses said.

The fighting, pitting the Islamic court militia
against the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA) in
Kurtunwarey district of the Lower Shebelle region was
continuing late afternoon on Monday and casualty
figures were expected to rise, a field radio operator
in the area told AFP.The warring groups confirmed the
fighting, but gave conflicting casualty figures.

An RRA official claimed that his fighters had killed
13 Islamic court militiamen, but an Islamic court
spokesman said that nine RRA gunmen had died in the
fighting and that his group had lost only two people.
Fighting between the two groups has left at least 20
people dead since Friday.

Meanwhile, Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Guelleh
has put forward a peace plan for Somalia which
recommends the creation of a transitional assembly
that would then elect a president and a prime
minister.

The prime minister would in turn form a cabinet and
the proposed transitional assembly would meet in May
in Mogadishu to elect a president, according to a
draft of the plan seen by AFP Monday in Nairobi.

Somalia has lacked a central government since dictator
Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991, and has
been torn apart by feuding clans.


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