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Fighting in central Somalia during talks in Addis Ababa
Michael Anders
334 words
12 January 1993
Agence France-Presse
English
(Copyright 1993)

MOGADISHU, Jan 12 (AFP) - New fighting has been taking place in and around the central Somalia town of Galkayo between the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF) and leading warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid's forces, Somali sources said Tuesday.

General Aidid's internal affairs representative Abdi Hassan Qaibdid said his side's Somali Liberation Army (SLA) had suffered about 12 dead and 25 wounded following an SSDF attack Friday.

The SSDF, led by Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf, suffered "more than triple" the SLA casualties, according to Qaibdid, who returned to Mogadishu from the area at the weekend.

Another senior official of Aidid's United Somali Congress (USC) who requested anonymity said the fighting was continuing inside Galkayo Monday night and that the already badly battered town had been further damaged.

Somali observers expected the town to fall to Aidid's men.

It is the second outbreak of fighting in the region between the two sides within the last month.

Informed Somali observers in Mogadishu said the fighting was related to the last week's talks under U.N. auspices between 14 of Somalia's warring, clan-based factions and movements in Addis Ababa.

A U.N. spokesman in Mogadishu said Tuesday that the latest word from Addis Ababa, Monday evening, was that the talks had reached a "crisis stage".

Another spokesman for the bitterly divided Hawiye clan federation-based USC said the former ruling Darod clan federation was declaring new movements and demanding representation for them.

The SSDF, the first movement to take up arms against ousted president Mohamed Siad Barre, is based on the Majerteen clan of the Darod, while the Siad Barre regime was based on the Marehan, also of the Darod.

USC forces reportedly took the town of Ghelinsor from the SSDF a month ago, and the fighting, which has been moving east from the Galgadud to the Mudugh region, was expected by Somali observers to continue.

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