Posted in Africa, AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Government, Gunfire, Horn of Africa, Looting, Military, Somalia, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Nations, tagged African Union, Al-Shaabab, Civilian Casualties, famine, humanitarian aid, IDPs, International Committee of the Red Cross, refugees, Somalia, the United Nations, World Food Programme on August 5, 2011|
AP | Abdi Guled and Katherine Houreld| August 5, 2011
Somali government troops opened fire Friday on hungry civilians, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for food at a U.N. distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said.
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