From The New York Times:
NAIROBI, Kenya — Another major city in Somalia fell without a shot to Islamist insurgents on Wednesday, with Islamist guerilla fighters taking over the strategic port of Merka, residents and Somali officials said.
The Islamists are now in control of a large – and rapidly growing – swath of south-central Somalia, and the weak transitional government seems too paralyzed by infighting to do much about it. The government has repeatedly asked the United Nations to send peacekeeping troops, but because of the continuing conflicts in eastern Congo and Darfur that seems unlikely at the moment.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Another major city in Somalia fell without a shot to Islamist insurgents on Wednesday, with Islamist guerilla fighters taking over the strategic port of Merka, residents and Somali officials said.
The Islamists are now in control of a large – and rapidly growing – swath of south-central Somalia, and the weak transitional government seems too paralyzed by infighting to do much about it. The government has repeatedly asked the United Nations to send peacekeeping troops, but because of the continuing conflicts in eastern Congo and Darfur that seems unlikely at the moment.
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