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allAfrica.com: Somalia: Mogadishu Under House-to-House Search Operations (Page 1 of 1)

allAfrica.com: Somalia: Mogadishu Under House-to-House Search Operations (Page 1 of 1): "Somali and Ethiopian troops have conducted massive house-to-house search operations in a large part of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Sunday. The troops halted all movements of passenger buses and ordinary people walking to Bakara market, the capital's largest open-air market where 80% of the population goes for work.
The joint search operations have been carried out in at least 10 neighborhoods in the capital. 'All roads to the neighborhoods where the troops are lingering have been blocked in early morning. I was going to Bakara this morning and I have returned after the troops refused anybody to enter Bakara,' said Ahmed Hashi, a resident of KPP neighborhood."

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