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9 people killed in Mogadishu in attack aimed at the AU troops |
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
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At least nine Somalis have been killed in a restaurant in the capital, Mogadishu, in an attack aimed at the newly arrived African Union troops. A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an AU convoy but it missed the target. A third contingent of 400 Ugandan troops has arrived, bringing the total to 1,200 troops in Somalia. The troops have been sent to back up Somalia's transitional government. The AU force is taking over from the Ethiopian troops who intervened to help the government oust the Union of Islamic Courts which had held power for six months and restored some order to the anarchic country. But violence has escalated in the past two months, with dozens of people being killed by insurgents, and now the AU is being targeted.
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